Bob Condor

It takes a certain commitment to ride your bike to work, and the city of Chicago is making it easier to the reap the health benefits of such a commute....

When the American Academy of Pediatrics announced its first-ever guidelines for diagnosing kids with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) this month, a primary reason was to help prevent...

Something different and positive is happening in established American medical journals practically every week. Right there next to studies about drugs or surgery are findings about alternative or complementary medical...

You know the routine. Warm up before you exercise or pursue any heavy physical activity. Be sure to do some stretching. But news from Australian researchers at universities and medical...

Brush your hair, your teeth--and now, your skin. Skin brushing is a popular practice in Japan and, more recently, at American spas. It not only removes the top layer of...

She remembers the feeling and Katie Scullion wants to pass it on. "Athletics proved so wonderful in my life," says Scullion, a Wilmette mother of a 14-month-old son and who...

In the April issue of Natural Health, writer Astrid Sandoval considers a preventive health measure that is right under our noses--and heads and necks. She talks to sleep experts who...

Here's a story from Dr. Richard Martini, a child psychiatrist at Children's Memorial Hospital, that makes you want to shake your head: "I have a friend who is determined not...

Although the decision to take certain dietary supplements might be one your doctor hesitates to endorse, it doesn't mean patients should neglect informing physicians about their vitamin, mineral and herbal...

Two studies presented at the recent American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco offer hopeful information to both prevent and treat cancer. Researchers at Oregon State University in Corvallis found...