When Shannon Aud, a freshman at Virginia Tech, came home for winter break last December, she was looking forward to a few weeks relaxing with her family, hanging out with her friends and skiing at a West Virginia resort. But on Christmas Eve, when she developed a bad sore throat, Aud figured she'd...

America has seen its last Lost Generation. Thanks to an invisible armada of incessantly broadcasting satellites, collectively called the Global Positioning System, and to the explosive proliferation of GPS receivers in gadgets from dashboard map units to cellphones to dog collars, even the...

There aren't many things that look their best right before they die, but the leaf of the sugar maple is one of them.

If you get annoyed by the hassles that accompany wearing glasses or contacts, you've probably at least thought about having vision-correction surgery. But what about the risks? The Consumer Reports National Research Center recently surveyed 793 adults who had laser eye surgery in the past eight y...

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I've replaced most of my cleaning supplies with eco-friendly versions, but I'm not sure that Dr. Bronner's Sal Suds are strong enough to kill all of the nasty bugs in my kitchen. Do green cleaning products work as disinfectants?

Juggling and other physically complex activities may hold some promise for brain regeneration among those who have suffered stroke or are coping with other neurological diseases where the pathways that connect how people think with how they move their bodies begin to break down.

"A dubious alternative" [Oct. 27] implied that homeopathy may not be safe. However, did the writer ask the Food and Drug Administration how many consumer complaints about injuries, side effects and other maladies caused by homeopathic medicines it gets per year? I bet it's near zero. Can you say...

THE QUESTION Fatigue is a frequent complaint of people getting chemotherapy for cancer. Might exercise change that?