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10 Colleges With the Highest Acceptance Rates 12/15/2014 07:00pm • The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: Cold and Flu Prevention: Building the Resistance of a Warrior 12/15/2014 07:00pm • Most think that one day, perhaps when we least expect it, fate comes knocking at our door and there it is: cancer, heart disease, dementia or whatever we fear most. If this were indeed how we get sick, and there's nothing we can do about it, then it becomes easy to rationalize dangerous behaviors s 5 Ways International Students Can Explain College Choices to Parents 12/15/2014 07:00pm • Choosing the list of colleges where you want to apply certainly can affect your future -- especially when you're heading overseas. For this reason, your parents are likely to be worried and concerned about the choices you are about to make. In an effort to help prospective international students How to Overcome the Holiday Blues 12/15/2014 07:00pm • The holidays magnify everything. They can make folks feel very, very good. They can also make them feel very, very bad. You may be fine with your single status the rest of the year, if every so often you do wish it was otherwise. But when the family gets together, multiple repetitions of, "So why ar Should You Try the Whole30 Diet? 12/14/2014 07:00pm • Melissa Hartwig knows it looks hard: Eliminating all traces of grains, dairy, sugar and legumes for 30 whole days. That means no sandwiches, no yogurt, no pizza, no peanut butter, no chips, no cereal, no hummus, no cheese -- the list goes on -- for an entire month. And no, this isn't a liquid diet Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: What Is It and Who Needs It? 12/14/2014 07:00pm • By the time she was 61, Martha Rhodes had spent decades battling intractable depression. Diagnosis: treatment-resistant major depressive disorder. She'd tried a variety of medications to no avail; most were ineffective or caused nausea, diarrhea, weight gain and mood swings. During one particularly Get weather forecast tailored for your plans 12/12/2014 10:47am • Data Doctors Can Weight-Loss Surgery Cure Diabetes? 12/11/2014 07:00pm • For Arnoldo Gutierrez, 59, the priority for weight-loss surgery was getting his "horrendous" diabetes under control. The Aspermont, Texas, veterinarian took pills three times a day and an insulin injection each evening -- but his blood sugar levels remained high. At 5 feet 9 inches and a peak weigh Tips for managing passwords for several accounts 12/11/2014 11:42am • By Ken Colburn, Data Doctors PHOENIX -- Q: What's your best suggestion for managing passwords, so I can make sure to use unique passwords on all my accounts? A: Passwords are one of the most important elements of security, but still one of the most overlooked by the average user. As I've pr How Sharing Your Health Data Can Help Others 12/10/2014 07:00pm • Most of us are in the midst of holiday shopping, but if you can step outside the commercial hustle, consider giving a gift that literally keeps on giving: your health data. That's right -- your height, weight, blood pressure reading, cholesterol, pulse, sleeping habits, reactions to medications an How Could America Get Its Medical Debt Problem in Check? 12/10/2014 07:00pm • American consumers are deep in debt, and the lion's share of it -- more than a third -- is medical debt. A recent study by personal finance website NerdWallet found that $21 billion in medical debt was collected from consumers in 2012, representing 38 percent of debt in collections. Unlike most t Why 'Diabetic' is a Dirty Word 12/09/2014 07:00pm • What do you call someone who has diabetes -- a diabetic or a person with diabetes? The distinction may not sound like a big deal to you, but to those with the condition, it's the difference between living with the disease and letting the disease control their life. Indeed, being labeled a diabetic Keeping sickness at bay this cold season 12/09/2014 03:49pm • WASHINGTON -- 'Tis the season for the sniffles. Seems like everybody is coming down with a cold -- or worse. Doctors in the D.C. area say they are seeing an uptick in upper respiratory problems, and no family, office or school seems to be immune. "It sort of comes with the territory," says Ma The Data Doctors 12/09/2014 03:08pm • (function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/cdn/embed.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script"); s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); How to Save Money When You're Sick 12/08/2014 07:00pm • You know the feeling. It usually starts with the sniffles or a cough and turns into a full-blown cold or something worse. While the fall and winter bring about fun and memorable activities or traditions, this time of year also means being in the middle of cold and flu season. According to the Cente