Health & Balance Features
- 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.
- 'The Apprentice': What Skills Are Key?
Experts say emotional intelligence and leadership are necessary to win the dream job with Donald Trump.
- The Passion of the Movies
'The Passion of the Christ' is the latest to show the power of movies to move us.
- Worry vs. Reality: The Real Risks You Face
When it comes to evaluating medical risk -- or risk of any kind, for that matter -- it gets very personal, and when we're weighing threats to ourselves or to others we care about, we tend to think with our hearts rather than our heads. We explain real risk
- Tearooms Offer a Healthy Buzz
Oodles of antioxidants are contained in green tea, black tea, even oolong tea.
- Tearooms Offer a Healthy Buzz
Tea is gaining ground over coffee, and tearooms are popping up everywhere. The health benefits of tea are one compelling reason.
- The "Food-Family Connection": Letting Go at Last
Everyone's emotional eating origins are uniquely personal.
- Why the Super Bowl Matters
On Super Bowl Sunday, one team will claim victory and the other, defeat. But psychologically, many of their fans will wind up winning -- no matter the score.
- Help for Battered Men
Domestic violence befalls mostly women, but men are victims, too.
- Designer Funerals: The Final Getaway
Baby boomers face the inevitable -- with posh caskets and funky funeral services.
- Do Opposites Attract? Not Really
Do opposites attract? Not according to new research: People who want to find a mate look for similar traits.
- Natural Brain Boosters
Want to add some brawn to your brainpower? Several natural brain boosters are out there.
- Negative Ions Create Positive Vibes
There's something in the air that just may boost your mood -- get a whiff of negative ions.
- How to Stop Nagging
Is your nagging driving your spouse crazy? Here's how to communicate without being a nag.
- Relax in a Hurry
Who can remember to relax -- and who has time? You do! It only takes five minutes.