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Heart Failure: a Growing Problem Worldwide 01/11/2016 07:00pm • The term is heart failure -- but it may also be aptly described as an action: The heart is failing. A normally chronic, irreversible and progressive condition, heart failure arises when the weakened heart muscle isn't able to pump all the blood, which contains oxygen and nutrients, a body's cells ne The Greatest Frugal Resolution You Can Make 01/11/2016 07:00pm • January is the month in which we promise to improve our lives. Last year, 37 percent of Americans vowed to stay fit and healthy; 32 percent pledged to lose weight; and 28 percent resolved to "enjoy life to the fullest," according to Nielsen, a management firm that studies consumer behavior. Although Pick Your Eating Plan Like You Choose Your Car 01/11/2016 07:00pm • The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans and U.S. News Best Diets of 2016 may drive you to start thinking about your weight goals, eating habits and food choices. Many people go on diets in January only to discard them by February and feel frustrated, angry and hesitant to try again.As a registered Choose Between AP, Online Classes 01/11/2016 07:00pm • Advanced Placement, or AP, classes have traditionally offered high school students the opportunity to pursue a more rigorous education, as well as the opportunity to enhance their college applications and to earn course credit. The rise of online education, however, has provided students with new a 4 Traits That Hiring Managers Want in a New Employee 01/11/2016 07:00pm • Technical skills: Check. Education: Check. Qualifications: Check. Soft skills: Womp womp. Hiring managers seek a certain "je ne sais quoi," a certain "it" factor, when evaluating candidates. When soft skills are clearly absent, or don't get appropriately emphasized during a job interview, it could b Hypothyroidism can sap energy without your knowing it 01/11/2016 04:59am • WASHINGTON — A lot of people are walking around with hypothyroidism — a gland that doesn't produce enough thyroid hormone — without knowing it. Doctors say it's one of the most misdiagnosed conditions around. Dr. Kenneth Burman, chief of endocrinology at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Managing Blood Pressure: It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint 01/10/2016 07:00pm • By Priya Umapathi, M.D.; Haitham Ahmed, M.D.; and Erin Michos, M.D., M.H.S.What may be affecting your doctor's decision to change your blood pressure target most recently is the landmark SPRINT study published in the November issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. But we'll come back to that Va. 19-year-old honored for lifting truck off father, stopping fire 01/08/2016 09:36am • WASHINGTON — A 19-year-old Virginia woman was honored Thursday for an act of heroism and unlikely strength that saved six lives. Charlotte Heffelmire was presented with the Citizen Lifesaving Award by the Fairfax County Fire Department for her actions last Nov. 28, in which the 5-foot, 6-inch 7 surefire ways to fail at your New Year's resolutions 01/07/2016 07:00pm • Over 80 percent of New Year's resolutions fail, according to a U.S. News Eat + Run post. So what do the successful resolution-makers know that the rest of the world doesn't? The fact is that there are right and wrong ways to make resolutions. Some types of resolutions fail, and some attitudes tow 11 Changes Women Go Through in Menopause 01/07/2016 07:00pm • Better than you expectYou've made it this far, and that's a good thing. "There are ways to be comfortable through menopause, with treatment and lifestyle changes," says Rebecca Mendoza, a certified nurse practitioner at the Menopause Center of Minnesota. "It isn't a time to be miserable -- women do 7 exercises that trainers wouldn't be caught dead doing 01/07/2016 07:00pm • What you don't know can hurt you Take a look around your gym: Most of the exercises you see people performing -- maybe even some that are part of your regular routine -- a trainer would never do. Why? Because they are ineffective, inefficient or could increase your risk of injury. To ID the ex What's new in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines? A dietitian reveals what you need to know 01/07/2016 07:00pm • The new 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide much of the same advice as the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, but there are a couple significant changes that I applaud. The new guidelines highlight the importance of everything you eat and drink over a lifetime -- an eating pattern -- rather than spe 4 Reasons You Won't Keep Your Money Resolutions This Year 01/07/2016 07:00pm • Odds are, as the ball dropped in Times Square (along with your promises to drop 20 pounds and finally clean out your closets), you vowed this would finally be the year you would really get serious about saving for retirement or putting away money for your kids' college. Or maybe you decided this wo CES showing trends in health tech 01/07/2016 05:40pm • WASHINGTON -- Technology is transforming health care. And if you need proof, all you have to do is stroll the aisles at the big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There are all kinds of new devices in the personal health category, and they can benefit anyone from an infant to a great-grand Why Investors Should Be Wary of Italy 01/06/2016 07:00pm • With more bailouts than a termite-ravaged dinghy and one in four workers unemployed, Greece has inspired the ire of many eurozone officials whose sentiment is summed up nicely by University of Pittsburgh professor Jay Sukits: "I always though the best thing to do about Greece would be to get a big s