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Too much caffeine during pregnancy may increase the risk of miscarriage, a new study says, and the authors suggest that pregnant women may want to reduce their intake or cut...

At Vixxen Hair Salon, the main topic of conversation has always been money. But since August, Anjanette Booker, the owner, has noticed a new focus. "Now it's money and foreclosures,"...

At Vixxen Hair Salon, the main topic of conversation has always been money. But since August, Anjanette Booker, the owner, has noticed a new focus. "Now it's money and foreclosures,"...

I used to give the worst get-togethers. I was a jittery mess, the sort of person who leapt to refill a glass and filled any conversational lull with nervous chatter....

Fitness magazines and Web sites love to ask readers about their favorite workout music while presenting their playlists or suggestions from celebrities. Self.com features the "'80s cardio playlist," which includes...

Until recently, cell phone novels -- composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs -- had been dismissed in Japan as an unworthy subgenre. Then last month, the...

Nothing makes a winter getaway more inviting than the warm glow of a crackling fireplace. "Since cave man times, we like to build a fire and poke around in it,"...

Clyde Otis, a songwriter and record producer who was one of the first black executives at a major record company, died Jan. 8 in Englewood, N.J. He was 83. His...

Once their eyes adjusted to the dim interior of the house that would be theirs, Marcel and Sherrie Deans marveled at the architectural details they could make out amid the...

The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and...