Finally, the Democratic primary race is over. Above and beyond her persistence and her historic effort as a female presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton’s campaign legacy is health insurance truth.
Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance. According to Consumer Reports, nearly half, 49 percent of Americans, are unprepared financially to cope with a costly medical [...]
Study, focusing on teenagers and their sexual health shows oral sex is no substitute for vaginal intercourse.
Today the Guttmacher Institute released the results of recent research that breaks the myth that teens are substituting oral or anal sex for vaginal intercourse in order to continue to claim they are still virgins.
The research reveals that, in [...]
Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]
Using diet modification to treat a child’s behavior problems has been popular and controversial since the 1920s. Like fad weight-loss diets, it seems there is always a new behavior-modification diet to give parents hope. Though, again, like the latest weight-loss diet, there is very little proof of long-lasting results.
One of the most popular of [...]
THE CLAIM:
Cold water boils more quickly than hot water
THE FACTS:
The claim is repeated so often that many people accept it as fact. But according to scientists, the notion that a body of cold water will reach boiling temperature more quickly than an identical body of hot water under the same parameters is [...]
Drinking a lot of water is claimed to be helpful for everything from clearing toxins and keeping organs in tip-top shape to keeping weight off and improving skin tone.
At best, however, the evidence to back up these claims is weak, according to a new scientific review published in the Journal of the American Society of [...]
Drinking a lot of water is claimed to be helpful for everything from clearing toxins and keeping organs in tip-top shape to keeping weight off and improving skin tone. At best, however, the evidence to back up these claims is weak, according to a new scientific review published in the Journal of the American Society [...]
My mother wanted to protect us from Sophie’s more extreme paranoid ideas, so we were not taken to see her as children. But, as we got older, Jane told us about her; the good bits and the weird bits, shielding us from the worst. It was difficult to grasp who she really was or what [...]
The University of Michigan researchers estimated that based on their findings, published on Wednesday, the lives of 200 of the roughly 370 fetuses killed yearly in US vehicle crashes would be spared if all pregnant women wore seat belts.
Seat belts absolutely protect the fetus - and not wearing a belt is a big problem, Dr [...]
With an eight-hour surgery looming–she has endured more than 40 so far–she’s simply hoping that she will be able to fulfill concert dates that were booked a year or more in advance. She’s also praying that an incurable but now-dormant bone infection, which she contracted the day of the accident, doesn’t reawaken, because it could [...]
