Is now a good time to switch employers? Or is it wiser to stick with your current job and make the best of it? The days in which workers could expect to have one long career at a single company are long gone. In more recent times, the assumption has ...

Here are six low-tech healthcare services readily available to seniors and which will vastly improve their quality of life, according to the Hartford Foundation. Did you know that Medicare pays the full cost of one wellness checkup each year? How does it feel to be old? In large measure, the answer ...

Doctors need to step up their p.r. game if they're going to counter the anti-immunization tide, says a new Mayo Clinic study that offers talking points on how to respond to parents' fears. If Dr. Greg Poland has his way, his new study in the journal Human Immunology will serve as ...

Breast-feeding advocates say the partnership between Newark, N.J., and Nestle — a major baby formula maker — to reduce childhood obesity and promote breast-feeding is inappropriate, like "R.J. Reynolds sponsoring an exercise program." Newark’s Corey Booker is a darling among U.S. mayors. He made headlines in 2010 when Facebook founder Mark ...

There's a new trend among teens looking for a buzz, doctors say, and it surrounds an unlikely household item designed to keep us germ-free: ethanol-based hand sanitizer. Teenagers are using it this stuff to get high, according to health officials. Poison control centers nationwide say reports are on the rise. The big ...

Pushing her meal cart into the hospital room, a research assistant hands out tall glasses of reddish-pink liquid, along with a gentle warning: "Remember, you guys have to finish all your Kool-Aid." One by one, young volunteers chug down their drinks, each carefully calibrated to contain a mix of water, flavoring ...

Most of the world’s population believes in God, or gods, but alongside them there are also hundreds of millions of nonbelievers. What makes one a believer or not? Religious faith is likely a complex phenomenon, shaped by multiple aspects of psychology and culture, say the authors of a new study. But ...

Humility doesn’t top the list of popular virtues these days, but if you’re ever in need of help, a humble friend is more likely to be there for you than a prideful one, new research suggests. Humbleness has also been linked with generosity. Studies find that the trait predicts charitable giving ...

Children’s behavior at age 3 offers some surprising clues about their risk of developing addictive behaviors like problem gambling or drug misuse in their 30s, according to data from an ongoing study of nearly 1,000 people in New Zealand. The research, which has so far tracked participants’ psychological, economic and intellectual ...

Pushing her meal cart into the hospital room, a research assistant hands out tall glasses of reddish-pink liquid, along with a gentle warning: "Remember, you guys have to finish all your Kool-Aid." One by one, young volunteers chug down their drinks, each carefully calibrated to contain a mix of water, flavoring ...