Staying Healthy

By Kristina Cappetta

What's a healthy BMI for women? Learn how weight and body fat percentage impact your health and weight management tips.

Learn how to develop a healthy sleep schedule.

This article describes how emotions and moods can affect your health.

Take this health survey to screen yourself for potential illness and disease.

Learn more about common health problems that affect women, and how they are generally treated.

Learn how to keep your diet in balance and maintain a healthier lifestyle.

There are several factors that a cardiologist considers when deciding whether to recommend surgery or a more conservative treatment for a child with a ventricular septal defect (VSD).

Learn a number of things that you can do to try to head off motion sickness.

A mother questions whether she did the right thing by putting her daughter on the pill.

Find out when it makes sense for someone to get the chickenpox vaccine.

Overall, all types of congenital (present at birth) heart defects occur in about 8 of every 1,000 infants born.

When there is a family history of diabetes, it's appropriate to discuss suspicious symptoms with your pediatrician and have your child examined.

Find out how to deal with family stresses.

Learn what you should do when your daughters have frequent UTIs.

Find out when prophylactic antibiotics are advisable for ear infections.

Learn how you can help your children avoid developing diabetes.

Although much research is being done, no one knows what causes the skin condition known as vitiligo.

It has never been scientifically proven that knuckle-cracking causes arthritis.