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Beach Safety 101

They tend to form as waves disperse along the beach, causing water to become trapped between the beach and a sandbar or another underwater feature....

Is Your Baby a Picky Eater?

If your baby loves carrot puree one day but pushes it away the next, or if you find yourself begging your little one to eat, you're not alone. A ba...

What is Osteoporosis? what You Need to Know

Osteoporosis is a common disease that makes bones thinner, which makes them more likely to break. When bone loss becomes more severe, you have oste...

Truth About Vitamin D: Vitamin D Tests

Even so, most experts agree that anyone with a 25-OHD level of less than 15 ng/ mL or 37.5 nmol/L (depending on the units reported by a lab) needs ...

Repairing a Chipped or Broken Tooth

Here are some ways your dentist may repair your broken or chipped tooth. To bond a tooth, the dentist first etches its surface with a liquid or gel...

Braces for Adults: How to Make The Decision

You also may sometimes need to get braces to change the position of teeth before getting a new bridge, crown, or implant. They fit like guards over...

Dental Health Resources

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry 211 East Chicago Avenue, Suite 1600 Chicago, IL 60611-2637 (312) 337-2169 Fax: (312) 337-6329 Web: www.aapd...

Long-Term and Hospice Care for People with MS

A score below 50% may mean that hospice care could help you. Hospice’s aim is comfort, or palliative, care, not a cure. For example, hospice usuall...

Migraine and Headache Glossary

Preventive medications: drugs used to treat very frequent tension headaches and migraines, or the combination of both types of headaches to reduce ...

Apathy

Apathy is when you lack motivation to do anything or just don’t care about what’s going on around you. Rather than feeling these emotions, you don'...

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

But people who have schizotypal personality disorder don’t. In rare cases, people with schizotypal personality disorder may go on to develop schizo...

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Many children and teens with ODD also have other behavioral problems, like attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, mood disorders (such ...