Jim Spencer

Virgin brides are going the way of black and white television sets. A few of them remain, but their numbers are shrinking. In a survey of female sexuality, Redbook magazine...

Allergies often are subtle and misunderstood, but some doctors believe patients can react to almost any substance, including, literally, the air they breathe. Now, says Brain/Mind Bulletin, researchers in a...

Because drug testing has become so routine in the hiring process, it pays to know the pitfalls of this screening. In order to avoid confusion, embarrassment and possibly the loss...

Sunlight is the best medicine for osteomalacia, a bone-softening problem common in older women, according to Geriatric Nursing: the American Journal of Care for the Aging. Because of hormone loss...

Brand names have moved from advertisements into art, says psychologist Monroe Friedman of Eastern Michigan University. According to Psychology Today magazine, Friedman tracked references to brand names ''in 31 best-selling...

Negatively worded information has a greater impact on behavior than positively worded messages, a pair of psychologists say. Beth Meyerowitz of Vanderbilt University and Shelly Chaiken of New York University...

I think I can. That line from the children`s story ''The Little Engine That Could'' is prophetic. A University of Michigan psychologist says that your vision of the future affects...

Only three metropolitan areas in the country--New York, Los Angeles and Washington--have more black-owned businesses than Chicago. Yet the city`s black business rate, meaning the number of black businesses per...

In recent years many doctors, most notably radiologists, have promoted less radical surgery in the treatment of breast cancer. They pointed out that a lumpectomy, in which only the tumor...

Children these days are more unruly than they used to be, parents believe, and so should receive more discipline. That`s what Parents magazine found in a nationwide survey. The survey...