The other day I was talking to this friend of mine who has personality dysmorphia. She honestly sees herself as reliable, reflective, altruistic and uniquely sensitive. She is, in fact, a thoughtless, self-obsessed flake who spends her life ruminating over inane dramas that truly don't even exist.

Just finished a long day. Close friend on suicide alert. Not sure that’s actually the right term. But it’s a scary prospect. I’ve never...

i can’t even return things i buy that i ultimately decide i don’t want. I’m not kidding.I never take anything back. I throw out moldy Trader Joe’s produce. I donate defective electronic equipment with tags still in tact. I wont even return clothes that don’t fit me.

Poor parents. We’re so misunderstood. We’re just trying to do the right thing and protect our kids from a devastating legume and then someone, well, a lot of someones actually, comes out and throws a bunch of annoying facts around and we have to face the truth. We are responsible for the plethora of peanut anaphylaxis plaguing our offspring.

The first time 14-year-old Ben Davis tried contact lenses, things didn’t go so well. His optometrist offered Ben the option when he was 12,...

Boys were found to have improved academic scores in math, reading and spelling if they were breastfed for six months or longer. There was a small but insignificant benefit for reading in girls.

Yesterday my eldest son got electrocuted at Fry's Electronics. The irony of that is not wasted on me...

“4 out of 5 Dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.” Do you remember that slogan? What does that mean? That one out of every 5 dentists recommend sugar-saturated Bubble Yum over the sugar-free alternative?

Researchers found no difference in objective or subjective total sleep time or sleep quality between mothers who were exclusively breastfeeding, exclusively formula feeding or using a combination of the two.

Somewhere along the line we learned that taking care of ourselves emotionally didn’t count nearly as much as our efforts to mend our physical selves and acknowledge our bodily problems.

Richelle Nassos of Cave Creek works with her husband in running me4kidz, a company that sells first-aid kits made specifically for children. Tell us more...

Q: What are the new guidelines on prescribing statins, or cholesterol-lowering drugs, for children? It used to be that parents and grandparents were the only...

The nutrient so necessary for human survival is also one of the biggest potential threats to our health. A January study in the New England...

They're often a fact of life for school‑aged children. They're inconvenient, but cause no medical harm and can be effectively treated. The American Academy of...

Breastfed infants are less likely to have a fever after vaccinations than non-breastfed infants. The mothers of young infants were instructed to measure and record the...

Tucson-based, internationally renowned health guru Andrew Weil, M.D. gave a presentation recently at True Food Kitchen in Phoenix, the restaurant he developed in partnership...