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Could Acupuncture Improve Your Fertility?

This alternative treatment has proven benefits for conditions like chronic pain and stress. But can it combat infertility?

How to Combat Fluid Retention

Fluid retention is a common occurrence. Here are 10 lifestyle changes you can make to help reduce or eliminate excess fluids.

5 Keys to Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids

Strong parenting and emotional well-being are closely connected. Dr. Gerald Newmark, author of the book "How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children," offers his top child-rearing strategies.

Body Pillow Basics

More than a snuggle buddy, a body-length pillow can improve your bedtime posture and help you get a better night's sleep by relieving common aches and pains that are keeping you awake.

Living With Asperger Syndrome

It's estimated that more than 400,000 families in the U.S. have a child with Asperger Syndrome. The disorder affects more boys than girls and is most often diagnosed between the ages of 5 and 9. Here's what you should know about this common disorder.

BPA Plastic: 7 Safety Steps

Keeping safe from toxic chemicals is no easy task these days. Here are practical steps you can take to minimize exposure.

6 Sun Smarts for Babies and Toddlers

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S. So, when fresh air and sunshine beckons your family outside to play, be sure to pack sunscreen along with your diapers, snacks, and other essentials. Here's all you need to know.

4 Tips for Healthy Multiples

Raising more than one? Multiples have special health concerns.

The Link between Mom's Symptoms and Her Child's Depression

Having children is an exciting, rewarding experience for most parents. For women suffering from depression, however, parenting is especially difficult and untreated depression can have long-lasting effects on their children.

What's Behind Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy?

When a parent makes her own child ill in order to receive sympathy and attention from health-care professionals, it is one of the most harmful forms of child abuse.

Can Folic Acid Increase Your Asthma Risk?

If you've ever been pregnant, you've probably taken daily folic acid supplements to safeguard the health of your unborn baby. But did you know that in the process, you could have been increasing your child's risk of developing asthma?

In Utero and Infant Exposure to X-Rays

What precautions should you consider when it comes to these radiation risks?

The Truth about Fertility Treatments

When conception becomes difficult, it can affect both partners. Read on for information about your options and how you can keep a positive perspective.

Secondhand Smoke and Kids: How Much Is Too Much?

When it comes to kids and secondhand smoke, is there a safe level? And what does secondhand smoke affect?

Risks and Benefits of Eating Heart-Healthy Fish

When it comes to mercury exposure from fish, what do you need to know to make the healthiest choices?

What's Your Baby Thinking?

The infant mind could be the "most powerful learning machine in the universe."

Should Your Gynecologist be Your Primary Care Physician?

Your OBGYN has been there for you through thick and thin: from your first contraception to your last baby to even menopause. But should she also be your go-to-doctor for everything else?

Have Diabetes and Thinking of Getting Pregnant?

A baby, maybe? Here's what you need to know before trying to conceive.

Skull Deformities in Infants

Most babies' misshapen heads round out within the first few weeks after birth, but some do not and require intervention.

Understand the Hemoglobin A1C Test

Get to know this common test, what it measures, and what percentage number means you're in good control.

Trying for a Baby? Try Not to Stress

Are you and your partner looking to start or add to your family? Don't let stress put a stop to it.

Child-Free Women at a Record High

Fewer women are having children than ever before. In fact, in 2008, 80 percent more women remained child-free by age 44, as compared to 1976. Why this remarkable downturn? And what are the health implications of not reproducing?

Preventing a Milk Protein Allergy

It may be too late for you to eliminate your milk protein allergies, but one study says it might not be too late for your newborn baby.

New Worries about the Birth Control Patch

The birth control patch has been popular since it came on the market in 2002 due to its convenience and reliability. It's also been controversial because studies have linked it to some serious health risks. Now, there are new worries.

5 Common Congenital Heart Defects

Congenital cardiovascular defects, ranging from mild to severe, occur in about one percent of all live births, or approximately eight out of every 1,000 births, and are the most common congenital malformation in newborns.

Understanding Endometriosis

If you have painful periods, irregular bleeding, pelvic pain, or have even had trouble getting pregnant, you could be among the 9 percent of American women with endometriosis.

Hemorrhoids: A Real Pain in the Rear

If you're experiencing pain and burning in your backside, you may have a case of hemorrhoids. Rarely considered serious, hemorrhoids usually go way on their own within a few days.

The Risks of Going On and Off the Pill

Some of us have been led to believe that going on and off the birth control bill is a good way to give our bodies a "break." The truth is, though, this constant "back and forth" could be harmful to our health.

New C-Section Guidelines: How Will They Affect You?

New guidelines released in July 2010, make room for VBACs as well as vaginal twin deliveries (previously delivered almost exclusively by c-section).

10 Tips to Boost Your Fertility for Both Sexes

If you re considering adding a bundle of joy to your family, you may be in for a surprise to find that getting pregnant isn t necessarily as easy it seems. Still, there are plenty of low-tech ways that you and your partner can increase the odds of becoming parents.
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