Health

There's No Place Like OM

A beginner's exploration of yoga styles.

Is Your Water Safe?

What exactly is in that bottle or glass, anyway?

The Health Column: April 2008

Get up-to-date on vitamin D, autism and infectious disease.

Orthodontia

Young or old, it's never too late to straighten your teeth. Learn about all the latest in dental technology, as well as a history of tooth care.

Homemade, Healthy Spring Cleaning

With that first hint of spring in the air it feels like time to throw open the windows, let in the fresh air, and roll up your sleeves for some serious spring cleaning. But what if the latest household-cleaning miracle from Chemicals ’R’ Us leaves you with a headache from its formidable fumes or its toxic contents cause you to worry about your children or pets getting into it? What if you don’t like what most commercial cleaning products do to the environment but don’t want to shell out the big bucks for organic cleaning products?

Spring Cleaning: Back to the Basics

People have been experimenting with making their own cleaning products since ancient Babylonian times, when it was believed that the first soap making took place through the boiling of animal fats and ashes. Egyptians, Israelites, Greeks, and Romans all had their own variations on this soap recipe, with most including the use of animal fats or oils—in fact, according to an ancient Roman legend, soap got its name from Mount Sapo, where animals were sacrificed.

Test Time

Sometimes our bodies give us a warning sign to let us know that something just isn’t right. The sign may come in the form of an ominous-seeming lump, a nagging pain, or the inability to do something you once took for granted. Most of us respond to such signs by visiting our primary care physicians, hoping they will quickly diagnose (and cure!) our problems. Oftentimes it isn’t that simple and chances are your physician will have to order one or more medical tests to make a proper diagnosis (and therefore recommend treatment).

Herbs and Herstory

March is Women’s History Month and this got me thinking about the relationships between women and their families. It’s proven that children across cultures have brighter, healthier futures when there’s a grandmother in their lives—in fact, a child’s survival improves so consistently that public health accords a name, Abuela Effect (derived from the Spanish word for grandmother), to the phenomenon.

Cervical Cancer and HPV

You would think from the commercials that we’d just discovered the link between cervical cancer and human papilloma virus (HPV). Physicians have known for decades that certain strains of HPV (the virus that causes genital warts and other subtler symptoms) caused changes in cells that could lead to cancer.

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