Podcast: Play in new window | Download You’ve heard the phrase “Talk to your doctor” dozens of times, tacked onto ads on everything from cold medicine to antidepressants. But now experts are bringing new meaning to the phrase as they ask patients to think twice about requesting tests and procedures physicians say are often unnecessary. [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Philosophers no less learn-ed than Aristotle have pondered the dilemma of the chicken and the egg. They wonder in circles … which came first? … because you can’t have one without the other. Today, let’s look at a variation of the classic “Which came first” dilemma. Do you [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download A popular New Year’s dish in the South is a mashup of beans, peppers and onions called “hoppin’ John,” believed to bring good luck for those who eat it. Southerners have the right idea — it’s smart to start off the New Year and every day after with [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download It’s one of the most nerve-wracking moments in parenthood: handing your teen the car keys and watching her drive off … for the first time, alone. You try to ignore the “What-ifs?” and remember that this is part of life. You hope your budding driver will use the [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Smokers might want to think twice not only before lighting up, but before getting inked, too. Having a cigarette habit might make it doubly painful if or when you ever want to get that embarrassing butterfly tattoo removed. The latest in tattoo removal research shows that smokers tend [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download New research is revolutionizing upper-limb prosthetics — a technology that, for many amputees and people with limb deficiency, hasn’t advanced much since World War II. While it’s true that motorized limbs are gaining in popularity over shoulder-powered pulley prosthetics with their hooks or hand clamps, in a few [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download You’ve made it this far in life and the end is in sight, so why not let loose, let yourself go and enjoy all those vices and favorite victuals you’ve denied yourself all your life in an effort to keep your health and wealth? Because you might just [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Stuffing, cookies and mashed potatoes aren’t the only waist-thickening foods to look out for during the holidays — sugar-laden libations like apple cider, pumpkin spice lattes, mulled wine and hot cocoa are the sneakiest suspects when it comes to weight gain. New research from the Harvard School of [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download This holiday season, you may want to think twice before loading up on rice stuffing. New research from Consumer Reports found there were high levels of arsenic in rice and rice products, like rice milk, cereals and rice cakes. The Federal Drug Administration tested 200 brown and white [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download During the holidays, it can be difficult to eat your vegetables — especially since they’re competing with hot chocolate and gingerbread. So make the veggies you do eat count. Microgreens are leafy salad plants such as lettuce, mustard and kale that are harvested one to two weeks after [...]