NUTRITION

Supplement craze: Sensible or waste of money?

CHEW ON THIS

What we don't know really does hurt us

Health care reform is on life support, but there is one idea in this complicated bill that I hope will be r...

WEST KENDALL

Fit for Life helps teens shed weight and gain knowledge

A GROUP OF 32 TEENS IS SHEDDING WEIGHT AND GAINING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH FIT FOR LIFE, A 15-WEEK NUTRITION AND ...

NUTRITION

Duo behind the 'Eat This, Not That' series takes on the kitchen

Every time I hear that David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding are publishing another book in their Eat This, Not...

MIAMI HERALD FITNESS CHALLENGE

Trio has slimmed to two for now

Glenn Garvin is missing in action. He quit the Fitness Challenge competition, not to be heard of again. The...

MIAMI HERALD FITNESS CHALLENGE

Girl Scouts, threat or menace?

Forget underwear bombers. What we need is a comprehensive multilateral War on Diet Terrorism. Target No. 1:...

CHEW ON THIS

Eating well the best medicine

It has taken nearly 2,500 years for most of us to internalize the wisdom of Hippocrates' edict, ''Let food ...

MIAMI HERALD FITNESS CHALLENGE

Patience pays off in Herald Fitness Challenge

A round of applause is in order for my fellow Miami Herald Fitness Challenge competitor Andrew Richardson. ...

WEST KENDALL

Fit for Life helps teens shed weight and gain knowledge

A GROUP OF 32 TEENS IS SHEDDING WEIGHT AND GAINING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH FIT FOR LIFE, A 15-WEEK NUTRITION AND ...

MIAMI HERALD FITNESS CHALLENGE

Trio has slimmed to two for now

Glenn Garvin is missing in action. He quit the Fitness Challenge competition, not to be heard of again. The...

GET SMART

Stand at attention for this

''Get up, stand up'' may be the best advice for the today's desk jockeys. Noting a growing body of research...

JOCK DOC

Injury may end senior's year

Q: I am an 18-year-old pitcher who is going into my senior year of high school. Two weeks ago I was throwin...

MIAMI HERALD FITNESS CHALLENGE

Girl Scouts, threat or menace?

Forget underwear bombers. What we need is a comprehensive multilateral War on Diet Terrorism. Target No. 1:...

FITNESS CHALLENGE

Diet secret revealed!

Forget 2012! A new world dawns today! For centuries, a cabal of nutritionists, gym instructors and bulimic ...

MEDWATCH

Halls ProHealth Defense won't beat handwashing for preventing colds

Product: Halls ProHealth Defense dietary supplement, $4.99 for 18 drops, at CVS, Walgreens, Wal-Mart. Key i...

MEDWATCH

Doctor's test may be cheaper than LeadConfirm

MEDWATCH

Teething gels, like Hyland's Homeopathic, should be used sparingly

Product: Hyland's Homeopathic Teething Gel, $3.99 for 0.5 ounces, at CVS and Walgreens.

HEALTH Q&A

Cardiologist's advice about No. 1 killer of women

Sugary colas may complicate pregnancy

The question: Might sugar-sweetened drinks lead to gestational diabetes?

MEDICAL SIMULATORS

Artificial patients just perfect for practice

It was a high-stress situation for three nurses who had never delivered babies: A woman was 32 weeks pregna...

NEW TREATMENT

Drug aimed at increasing women's sexual desire

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Experts criticize new advice on mammograms

Some experts dismissed new guidelines by a government task force that urged women to wait for age 50 to get...

HEALTH WEBSITES

Waiting room chatter goes online

During her 12th week of pregnancy, Garance Genicot and her husband, Shub Debgupta, received worrisome news ...

More purse, more problems: Big bags, bad backs?

WEST KENDALL

Fit for Life helps teens shed weight and gain knowledge

A GROUP OF 32 TEENS IS SHEDDING WEIGHT AND GAINING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH FIT FOR LIFE, A 15-WEEK NUTRITION AND ...

Human touch of 'kangaroo care' helps tiny babies thrive

I never imagined I'd spend my first weeks as a mother pretending to be a marsupial. But there I was, sittin...

Tottering tots: Do little girls belong in big heels?

HEALTHY BONES

In puberty, fat builds mass

Girls suffering through the insecurities of puberty are often likely to yearn for the rail-thin bodies of s...

RESEARCH

Playing the blame game over childhood obesity

When Dr. Sadaf Farooqi and colleagues discovered a genetic abnormality that caused severe obesity in a hand...

PARENTING

'Choking game' could be deadly

Risk-taking adolescent behavior: It's not all sex, drugs and alcohol. There's also the choking game -- othe...

GET SMART

Sugar 'high' a myth, studies show

Dread holiday parties because the goodies served set your child off like a rocket? Are you sure sugar is to...

Florida Keys physician is Country Doctor of the Year

In this age of specialized medicine, Steven J. Smith of the Keys is a rare do-it-all doctor who performs ge...

HEALTHCARE

Jackson Health System bleeding red ink

Jackson Health System said that its losses in 2009 were four times higher than expected, and it is girding ...

Cardiologists battle Medicare over payment cuts

THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT

A new cure for healthcare reform

Saddled with high medical costs and a huge number of uninsured, South Florida leaders predict that changes ...

PHARMACEUTICALS

Glaxo, Merck disclose how much they're paying U.S. doctors

Two more drug companies released detailed lists about how much they're paying America's doctors.

INSURANCE

Health cards act like coupons

Millions of people who don't have health insurance are turning to health discount cards as a way to save mo...

JACKSON HEALTH

Jackson Health System faces more financial losses

Jackson Health System's dire financial situation could be about to get worse, with losses already in the mi...

HYPERTENSION STUDY

High blood pressure is linked to dementia

If the cardiologist's warnings don't scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the...

FRAGILE X SYNDROME

Taking aim at learning disorders

A pill to ease a type of mental retardation? An experiment is under way to develop one, aimed at a genetic ...

HEALTH Q&A

Cardiologist's advice about No. 1 killer of women

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Doctors tout NanoKnife for easy tumor removal

A University of Miami doctor recently removed two cancerous tumors from a patient's liver using only three ...

HEALTH Q&A

New treatments for aneurysms

GET SMART

Good, bad news about cellphone safety

Surprise: There's good news about cellphones. The Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center says mobile p...

WATER FILTERS

Maybe it's something lacking in the water

Suddenly, water filters are in the news. Legionnaires' disease kills one tourist and sickens two others, th...

SKIN DEEP

Your inner beauty shows outside

Have you ever noticed that when you feel great, you also look great? Dr. Eva Ritvo, vice chairwoman of the ...

CHEW ON THIS

What we don't know really does hurt us

Health care reform is on life support, but there is one idea in this complicated bill that I hope will be r...

WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?

Mom's buying a world of trouble

Q: My mother is destroying her life with shopping. Everyday she buys things she doesn't need, hides them fr...

JOCK DOC

Injury may end senior's year

Q: I am an 18-year-old pitcher who is going into my senior year of high school. Two weeks ago I was throwin...

PLASTIC SURGERY 101

Earlobe tear can be repaired

Q. When I was younger, my earrings tore through my earlobes. Is there anything I can do to fix the holes?

SKIN DEEP

Help for 'chicken skin'

If you've got small, red or whitish bumps that feel like sandpaper on the backs of your arms, you're not al...

CHEW ON THIS

Eating well the best medicine

It has taken nearly 2,500 years for most of us to internalize the wisdom of Hippocrates' edict, ''Let food ...