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Holding Their Liquor Makes Women Much Sicker than Men

Some women may be able to hold their liquor as well as men do, but there’s no equality when it comes to whose health suffers more for it. ...
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Use of Surrogate Sex Partners Rising Among Women

Sex therapists talk with their patients to help them confront their sexual problems and improve their sex lives. But some patients need more than talk therapy. They need ...
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In Mental Illness, Women Internalize and Men Externalize

Women are more likely to develop anxiety and mood disorders such as depression, while men’s mental health issues are more likely to involve antisocial personality and substance abuse ...
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Single Moms Have Poorer Health in Midlife

Single moms may be at risk for poor health later in life. Of thousands of mothers who participated in a 30-year study, the ones who had delivered children ...
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Kids’ Tantrums As Disorder Concern Doctors

Some doctors are concerned about new guidelines allowing children who frequently throw tantrums to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder, arguing that normal kids can act this ...
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Bipolar Disorder: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

Bipolar disorder is a chronic cyclical mental disorder where periods of manic, mixed-manic and depressive episodes are interspersed with relatively normal states of well-being. It affects approximately 5.7 ...
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Sally Ride’s Death: Why is Pancreatic Cancer So Deadly?

Astronaut Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, died today from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61, according to news reports. As a group, pancreatic cancers ...
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Personalized Medicine: New Era of Individualized Treatment Arrives

A new era of personalized medicine has dawned, with medical therapies tailored to individual patients based on their own genes. The practice, in its infancy, is illustrated in ...
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5 Experts Answer: Is Diet Soda Bad for You?

Each week, MyHealthNewsDaily asks the experts to answer questions about your health. This week, we asked dietitians, doctors and epidemiologists: Is diet soda bad for you? Here’s what ...
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7 Baby Myths Debunked

Introduction One unexpected offshoot of becoming a parent is the endless advice offered by well-meaning relatives and friends (and occasionally strangers). Some of the advice will be helpful. ...
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