Please Teach Your Kids To Send Text Messages In Complete Sentences

My 10-year-old son and I communicate by text message on the nights that his mother has custody. Usually, he’s asking me for technical support because there is a problem with his laptop. Sometimes, he asks me to bring something to school for him in the morning. Occasionally, he wants permission [...]

The New Health Care: The Surprising Failure of Calorie Counts on Menus

It turns out that knowing calorie amounts is not necessarily going to change what people eat. What else might work better?

ObamaCare's Marie Antoinette Moment

ObamaCare could be facing a Marie Antoinette moment. In case you didn't know, she was the Queen of France who reputedly said of the starving peasants, "let them eat cake." That was of course, just like telling someone who is hungry and broke, why don't you just eat at the [...]

More Employees Are Picking Benefits Online Via Private Exchanges

The private exchange, which allows employees to navigate health benefits through an online portal, is catching fire among the nation’s employers as it slows healthcare costs by putting more decisions into the hands of workers. A private exchange works by giving employees a menu of choices with a general idea of [...]

New Variety Of Rice Fights Global Warming And Global Hunger

As the COP21 climate change talks get underway in Paris this week, it’s nice to see real progress on a critical front that doesn’t get enough attention – food and climate. A slight change in a single gene of rice can avoid the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions each year as all the wind turbines in the world, or 15 nuclear power plants.

An Overburdened Physician System Is Yet Another Obstacle To Getting Wearables To Those Who Need Them

You know that wearable data--the one that's supposed to solve that big chronic health problem for those long-time sufferers? Well, its useless if there's no one to analyze it.

WATCH: 6 Ways You're Sleeping Wrong on the Road

We all want to accomplish more in less time but we’re not meant to be zombies. A good night’s sleep is not out of the question for anyone dealing with a high-powered job or daily stress.  WATCH as we chat about the ways to sleep better: According to Dr. Rebecca Robbins, The Benjamin Hotel’s [...]

Why We All Need Planned Parenthood

All women deserve access to reproductive healthcare without fear of verbal or physical attacks.

Gray Matter: The Heart Disease Conundrum

Why do South Asians account for so many of the world’s cardiac patients?

Los Angeles Gift Guide For The Holidays

What to buy in Los Angeles for everyone on your holiday gift list

Mind-Control Bacteria Stop You Eating Too Much

Gut microbes release proteins that stop the brain from thinking you're still hungry.

Instability in Marketplaces Draws Concern on Both Sides of Health Law

Insurers’ struggles in marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act have emboldened both conservatives who want to shrink the federal role and liberals who want to expand it.

LSD Microdosing: The New Job Enhancer In Silicon Valley And Beyond?

VideoAndrew Leonard’s piece in Rolling Stone last week, “How LSD Microdosing Became the Hot New Business Trip,” caught my attention for two reasons--the first of which was shock at this new “trend”, but then awe at the lengths twentysomethings will go to in order to enhance their creativity and productivity [...]

Remaking Medicine: Kentucky, Beacon for Health Law, Now a Lab for Its Retreat

The only Southern state to embrace the Affordable Care Act appears headed in a different direction under a new governor, Matt Bevin.

What Causes Americans The Most Stress? [Infographic]

A survey conducted by GfK has revealed that money, self-pressure and lack of sleep are the three major causes of stress in people's daily lives across the globe. Overall, nearly three in ten people said that the amount of money they have to live on is their leading cause of [...]

Ask Well: How Many Miles a Week Should I Run?

The maximum benefits of running occur at quite low doses, a new study suggests.

Beliefs: When Some Turn to Church, Others Go to CrossFit

A for-profit gym franchise has become the focus of study by researchers trying to pinpoint what constitutes religiosity in America.

The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare Of 1959

Fifty-six years ago Americans panicked over a Thanksgiving Day classic – cranberries. Just days before Thanksgiving in 1959, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare set off the first nationwide food panic saying that domestic cranberry products were contaminated with a carcinogenic herbicide. He failed to point out that one would have to eat 15,000 pounds of cranberries every day for several years to get cancer. Thus, the new Delaney Clause started a 40-year reign of fear of food additives.

Well: Light May Work on Nonseasonal Depression, Study Finds

The study says bright light therapy, which has been used effectively for seasonal affective disorder, may also work to treat the more common nonseasonal depression.