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7 Things You Should Never Say to Someone With Depression (and What to Say Instead) 08/17/2017 08:00pm • Depression is a confounding condition, both for those who have it and for their friends and family. Mental illness often makes it extremely hard for the person with the disease to take action to get better. That's hard to understand for anyone who has never had to deal with it. It's the main reason Is This the Answer to Ending Chronic Pain? 08/17/2017 08:00pm • Six and a half years ago, Elizabeth Ruddick, now 21, rolled her ankle playing Frisbee. A longtime athlete, Ruddick assumed it would heal just like any of the other sports injuries she'd dealt with in the past. "I thought that for the next nine months," she says. "But it just kept getting worse." Learn how to look: The eclipse can damage your eyes 08/17/2017 04:08am • WASHINGTON — Looking at the sun during the upcoming solar eclipse can damage eyes, doctors warn. "Staring at direct sunlight can burn and potentially scar your retina," said Dr. Shilpa D. Rose of Whitten Laser Eye. "Solar retinopathy is a photochemical reaction that causes damage to the retin Does Career Success Carry Over to Investing? 08/16/2017 08:00pm • Most successful professionals didn't get where they are today by accident. It takes a particular skill set of ambition, intelligence, savvy and tenacity to be successful in the business world. Unfortunately, that skill set might actually do more harm than good when it comes to investing. More often 11 Ways to Get Moving More When You Have Diabetes 08/16/2017 08:00pm • The positive benefits of increased physical activity when you have diabetes are just too powerful to ignore. First, there's the blood sugar-lowering benefit. Then there's the role that physical activity plays in weight loss and weight maintenance. And there are also the overall health benefits that Should Antipsychotics Be Used for People With Dementia? 08/16/2017 08:00pm • In people with dementia, like that caused by the progressive brain disorder Alzheimer's disease, a decline in mental abilities can affect all aspects of one's life. The advancing changes also profoundly affect how people with dementia interact with their caregivers. Among older adults with dementia 9 Ways to Maximize Your Retirement 08/16/2017 08:00pm • When you retire, a wide array of new possibilities become available to you. You have the opportunity to create a life that's determined by your interests, desires and priorities, unencumbered by the constraint of having to earn a living. Yet many people don't take advantage of the possibilities tha Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Grit 08/16/2017 08:00pm • A funny thing happened to Caroline Adams Miller, an executive coach and speaker specializing in positive psychology, after she finished writing a proposal for a book about grit: Her own grit was seriously tested as she searched for a publisher. This was in 2015, on the eve of the publication of Mac Does Having Health Insurance Improve Breast Cancer Survival Rates? 08/16/2017 08:00pm • Although most of us could probably surmise that having health insurance increases the chances of surviving a major illness, researchers at Loyola University Chicago recently put the theory to the test. In a June 2017 study in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, researchers found that more patients were What You Should Know About Stomach Cancer 08/16/2017 08:00pm • Cancer of the stomach, or gastric cancer, is the fifth most common cancer worldwide in women and the fourth most common in men, says Dr. Amit Bhatt, a gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic. "Although, in general, the rates of gastric cancer are going down, it remains one of the most common cancer Super-Early Detection of Alzheimer's Made Possible by Brain Scans 08/15/2017 08:00pm • "Tau tangles" and "amyloid plaques" might evoke a Medusa-like image of a head full of chaotic, snake-ridden hair. Unfortunately, these plaques and tangles represent something more real. They're the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease -- brain-invading protein formations that used to be detectable only 4 Things to Consider Before You Have Sex on the Beach 08/15/2017 08:00pm • Having sex on the beach may sound fun at first -- a calm sea breeze, the blazing sun and your partner all in one place. But the potential consequences could leave you infected, bug-bitten and/or sandy in all the wrong places. Here's what experts think you should keep in mind the next time you decide What to Do About Back-to-School Anxiety 08/14/2017 08:00pm • As the summer winds down, kids often get both excited and nervous about returning to school. Many students eagerly anticipate seeing friends, sharing stories and going back-to-school shopping. But others experience growing worries as the first day approaches. Whenever there is change, anxiety is nat Heart Disease Is a Major Killer If You Have Diabetes 08/14/2017 08:00pm • If you have diabetes, you're two to four times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than someone who doesn't have diabetes. "Cardiovascular disease causes approximately two-thirds of deaths in people with Type 2 diabetes, making it the number one cause of death for those with diabetes," sa Can Endocrine Disruptors Elevate Risk of Breast Cancer? 08/14/2017 08:00pm • The American Cancer Society reports that the median age when patients are diagnosed with breast cancer is 61. This means that half of all cases of breast cancer occur in people younger than 61, and half occur in people older than 61. Although breast cancer is considered a disease of aging, in some