Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images As a mom living in New England, not a warm day has gone by in the past decade or so where I haven’t checked my kids for ticks. Yes, the wee vampires are the bane of my summer existence. They love to hide in the body’s nooks and crannies — in or behind...
Kinga Krzeminska/Moment/Getty Images We’ve all had the experience of feeling alone in a crowded room, right? Or knowing we have friends to call or text, yet feeling like reaching out is just pointless. We’re calling it “loneliness creep” — when that feeling of being left out or separate from those around you creeps in even...
Tomas Rodriguez/Corbis/Getty Images If you were a certain kind of kid going through the D.A.R.E. program in the ’90s, you very likely lived a good chunk of your childhood believing you were one peer-pressured joint away from a crack addiction and living on the streets. But even after those sensational fears ultimately ebbed (and for...
NoSystem images/E+/Getty Images Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert Kennedy has been vocal in his desire to ban fluoride from public drinking water. As recently as last month, in an interview on Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus, Harris Faulkner asked Kennedy about concerns held by dentists and public health experts that taking added fluoride...