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  • Sunscreen slows skin aging, study shows

    Published June 04, 2013

    Though you may rely on anti-wrinkle creams packed with antioxidants and cosmeceuticals to keep your skin looking young, a new study suggests that you may be better off smoothing on sunscreen.

  • Dealing with mean girls -- and boys -- in the workplace

    Published May 28, 2013

    Though most mean girls and tough boys of middle and high school grow out of their sophomoric behaviors, some cling to them well beyond college and into adulthood. That means you may encounter this behavior in the workplace.  Here are some of the most difficult personality types and how to deal with them.

  • Getting a colonoscopy? There's an app for that

    Published May 21, 2013

    A group of physicians in Phoenix decided that people undergoing a colonoscopy could really use the help of an app.

  • Bored with your job? How to get the spark back

    Published May 09, 2013

    If you are finding it hard to drag yourself to work, maybe you need a new job - but maybe you just need to adjust your attitude. Here's how

  • Woman cheats death to receive double lung transplant

    Published May 08, 2013

    Terry Perrotta had always been active and healthy, so she became concerned when at the age of 44, she felt completely out of breath merely from walking up the stairs. In 2006, Perrotta, a divorced mother of two teenagers who lives in Rhode Island, was with pulmonary hypertension and cheated death several times. Here's her story

  • One-day radiation therapy a new alternative for breast cancer patients

    Published May 02, 2013

    A new type of radiation, known as intra-operative radiation, is helping some breast cancer patients. With this treatment, patients are given the entire dose of radiation at once, though the total amount of radiation is less than the cumulative dose a woman receives when radiation is given over a period of six weeks

  • Mediterranean diet linked to better memory

    Published April 30, 2013

    Add one more benefit to eating a Mediterranean diet—a reduced risk of mental decline with age

  • How to cope with bullying in the workplace

    Published April 25, 2013

    An estimated one in seven employees are bullied at work, usually by their bosses. Women are more likely to be victims than men. And since there aren't really any laws to protect them, workers have almost no legal recourse when a bully boss embarrasses, harasses, humiliates and/or mistreats them

  • Employees paid to lose weight: A win-win situation?

    Published April 18, 2013

    More and more companies are paying its employees to lose weight, and a new study found that the golden carrot works, especially when it’s a generous payout

  • New technique 'lights up' brain tumor

    Published April 12, 2013

    An experimental technique is helping surgeons see brain tumors better and remove more of it