Health & Balance News & Features
- Crisis! How Would You Respond?
How would you react in a crisis? Do you have what it takes to not only survive disaster, but perhaps even lead others out of danger?
- 10 Ways to Catch a Liar
Experts have 10 tips that can let you know if someone isn't telling you the whole truth.
- 9/11: Emotional Wounds Heal Slowly
Experts look at ways that Americans are coping emotionally five years after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
- After Katrina: Many Still Not Prepared
Hurricane survivors and health experts discuss whether Americans are prepared for the next big storm.
- Nap Quest
The benefits of napping.
- Share Bear: Grieving the Loss of a Sister
Grieving the Loss of a Sister
- Coping With Closure
What is closure and is it really achievable en masse or even personally?
- Is Guilt Getting the Best of You?
Is Guilt Getting the Best of You?
- How to Avoid the 'Demons' of Summer
Tips for keeping your cool when obnoxious behavior tries to ruin your summer fun.
- Give Your Body a Boost -- With Laughter
Is laughter the best medicine? Some researchers say yes, others need more evidence.
- A New Age of Celebrity Worship
Experts help you understand the good, the bad, and the ugly of being the world's biggest fan.
- The Heart Speaks (Are You Listening?)
Loneliness, anger, and grief can break hearts as easily as high blood pressure. To heal the heart, feel the love.
- When Your Memory Plays Tricks on You
Although autism severely limits social and work skills, which depend heavily on cues taken from context and setting, it may actually improve memory tasks not dependent on context.
- Get Your Health Numbers in Check
Do your cholesterol or high blood pressure numbers have you down? Not to worry, there is hope.
- Leading the 'Metrospiritual' Life
Experts explain metrospirituality -- the latest trend in seeking peace and contentment.
- Why Contestants Go on American Idol
Experts explore the motivation of <EM>American Idol</EM> contestants.
- The Science of Good Deeds
The 'helper's high' could help you live a longer, healthier life
- How to Shake 'Holiday Gift' Anxiety
Experts share tips for avoiding anxiety during the holiday gift-giving season.
- 7 Ways to Squelch Holiday Squabbles
Etiquette expert Peggy Post shares tips for a harmonious holiday season.
- WebMD Checkup
Author Christopher Kennedy Lawford answers 10 questions about health, life, and well-being.
- Mind Matters: Unhappy Holidays?
Surviving family gatherings and other seasonal stresses.
- Patient Matters: Family Exam
Home for the holidays? Celebrating the season with your family is an ideal time to check on the health and well-being of your parents and other elderly relatives, especially if you live far away.
- Helping Loved Ones Make Tough Health Changes
Whether your loved one refuses to confront a chronic disease or an addiction, know how you can help and where your limits lie.
- When Health Fears Are Overblown
Experts discuss the fine line between appropriate health concerns and hyped-up fears.
- Everyone Loves Crime -- on TV
In uncertain times, TV viewers love it when bad guys get busted.
- 9/11 to Katrina: America's Resilience Shines
One human quality rises above all the devastation in hard times -- resilience.
- Taking Charge of Your Hospital Stay
Experts explain four steps that empower patients to manage their health needs from a hospital bed.
- Getting a Grip on Rage as Gas Prices Soar
Escalating prices at the pump spur theft, violence, and rage.
- Making a Life List
Experts explain how to make a list of life objectives without setting yourself up for disappointment.
- Help for the Chronically Late
Experts explain why the key to being on time is understanding why you're always late.
- Managing Pre-Wedding Jitters
Are your premarital jitters a sign something more serious is at issue?
- What Is Your Health Personality?
Your health personality influences the decisions you make about how you take care of yourself.
- Are Horoscopes Healthy?
Psychologists talk to WebMD about the mental health implications of reading horoscopes.
- Spring Break Makeover for the Mind
Ways to beat stress that will enhance -- and possibly lengthen -- your life.
- Are You a Wimp?
Experts offer tips on assertiveness at home, at work, and everywhere else.
- What Martha Stewart's Lessons Teach Us
When you're down and out, facing adversity, emotional resilience is a good thing.
- Rev Up Your Energy
Boost energy with these four excellent tips.
- Biofeedback Trains Mind, Body to Make Changes
Migraines, ADHD, high blood pressure, epilepsy, and incontinence can all benefit from the technique of biofeedback.
- Biofeedback Trains Mind, Body to Make Changes
Biofeedback is helping many gain control over common health problems like migraines, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, epilepsy, diabetes, high blood pressure, and incontinence.
- Meditation Balances the Body's Systems
The mind, heart, and body can improve with regular meditation.
- Strategies for a Hangover-Free Holiday Season
Strategies for hangover-free holidays.
- Make 2006 New Year's Resolutions a Reality
5 Steps to improve your health, family and home over the year.
- Make 2005 New Year's Resolutions a Reality
Here are five baby steps to improve your health, family, and home in the New Year.
- Want a Happy Marriage? Be Nice, Don't Nitpick
True compatibility doesn't exist, so shrug off little conflicts to have a happy marriage.
- Make 2005 New Year's Resolutions a Reality
Here are five baby steps to improve your health, family, and home in the New Year.
- Are You Heading For an Election Meltdown?
Regardless of the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, polls suggest that as many as 49% of Americans may now feel a profound sense of loss or even deep-seated anger.
- Stamping Out Stress on the Campaign Trail
How do the presidential candidates cope with the stress of seemingly endless days of campaigning?
- 9/11: Life Outside the Bull's-Eye
People living in New York or Washington, D.C., may understandably have a certain amount of fear of new terrorist attacks. But for many others across the U.S., a much vaguer sense of unease has settled in.
- Do We Need Another Sports Hero?
Why we crave heroes, and how athletes sometimes fit the bill.
- 6 Tips for Better Time Management
Simple, unpleasant truth is that we are probably busier than we ever have been, but experts tell WebMD easy ways to manage your time better.