Bob Condor

It may not be a book for dinner table conversation, or then again maybe it is. D. Lindsay Berkson, a consulting scholar and nutritionist for the Center for Bioenvironmental Research...

It's not news that regular physical activity can help reduce mild to moderate depression in patients. But a new study of 156 people by researchers at Duke University in Durham,...

Most of us need all of the help we can get in handling daily stress. Recent scientific findings are a good place to start. Dutch researchers have found that work...

You might have heard the word "scoliosis," which sounds scary enough. It can get scarier when you find out scoliosis is a spinal condition common during middle school and junior...

Too many Internet health sites are simply what new-media types call "data dumps," which means you get lots of information but not enough specific answers to your medical and wellness...

Some water spilled out of the pessimist's half-empty glass earlier this month. In a study that tracked 839 people over the age of 30, Dr. Toshihiko Maruta and colleagues at...

Americans spent an estimated $27 billion in 1998 on what you might call alternative medical treatments, including acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, naturopathy, massage therapy and herbs. The number for 1999 is...

In November 1998, Sheila Erley underwent open heart surgery, a quadruple bypass procedure. It came six years after she first experienced severe chest pains as a 43-year-old single mother of...

On a recent Monday morning, Dr. Martha Howard woke up with the scratchy beginnings of a sore throat. She dreaded what might typically follow: a week of misery from a...

Although modern medicine can claim its share of miracles, no drug on the American market can protect one of the body's most vital organs, the liver, better than the herb...