Daphne Howland

Protect your body from posture pitfalls.

Still resistant to wearing a bike helmet? Brain experts and others in the field have some facts to share with you.

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It sounds gross, but head lice infestations are probably more common than you think. Understanding what you’re up against is the key to eradicating the pests in your child’s hair.

For diabetics, eating right can be as important as taking medicine. But the thought of being on a restricted diet can sound daunting, if not depressing.

Love or Something Like It by Deirdre Shaw '95. Random House, 2009. 239 pages. $25.
In Deirdre Shaw's debut novel,Love or Something Like It, Los Angeles is not Joan Didion's depraved, Santa Ana-devasta...

Simple changes to your lifestyle can be good for you — while also being good for everyone else.

If you've been listening to your dentist, you have had it drilled into you that sugar is sweet poison to your teeth. But that might obscure another important lesson: What and how you eat overall profoundly affects your dental health.