Preventative Health

Early detection of breast cancer can save your life. Here are the tests you need and when to get them.

Exercise, diet—even attitude—can be as important as genetics when it comes to growing old gracefully. “Old age,” as Bette Davis once said, “is no place for sissies.” But that doesn’t mean you need to chicken out. Sure, growing older affects nearly every part of your body—including your hair, skin, heart, muscles, and more—but aging well may be as simple as adopting these (mostly) easy everyday habits.

And it’s free, too.

This one item is all you need.

Here, five clever new brightening products that make your teeth stand out.

A viral post about bedtimes has hit a parental nerve.

It puts the sleep in beauty sleep.

So long, insomnia.

You’re ready to hit the hay; your child is anything but. What to do? Experts share advice on how to get your kids to sleep at night.    

Leery of what might be lurking on that bedspread? You probably should be. Microbiologist Philip M. Tierno, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine, in New York City, helps fend off the filth. (Warning: This is not for the faint of heart.)