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3 Must-Do Tasks for Law School Students Looking to Transfer 03/29/2015 08:00pm • As law school admissions decisions continue to roll in, some applicants are faced with the difficult news that they have not been admitted to their top-choice schools. Other applicants may have been admitted to top-choice schools but have received lucrative offers from other schools that they feel t Don't Eat Your Children's Food 03/29/2015 08:00pm • No, this is not about noshing on plate scraps. Nor is it about "kid food," per se. I have written about that before. For that matter, my son has weighed in on that topic, addressing it both to you and directly to his peers, your kids. He has done so more than once, growing from a boy to a young man 5 Common Preventable Medical Errors 03/29/2015 08:00pm • More Than 200,000 Preventable Deaths a Year The hospital is supposed to be a safe place. When you take a sick or injured child there, "your shoulders drop, you relax, thinking they're in good hands," says Joe Kiani, founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. "The last thing you imagine is What Does Clean Eating Mean to Dietitians? 03/26/2015 08:00pm • As a college professor, I hear about diet trends fairly early and often. Many of my students love the idea of "eating clean," but I find that most of them struggle to define what it actually means. Indeed, " clean eating" is a term that has no official definition, leaving it wide open for interpret Cardiac Rehab: Boosting Your Heart Recovery 03/26/2015 08:00pm • If you've recently had a heart attack, or you're recovering from surgery such as heart bypass or stent placement -- or you have a condition such as hardening of the arteries, angina or heart failure -- you should ask your doctor about cardiac rehabilitation. Cardiac rehab is proven to reduce your 6 Things Keeping You Fat 03/26/2015 08:00pm • You're filling up on healthy foods, exercising daily and still, the scale isn't budging. It's mind-numbingly frustrating. Luckily, it's also fixable. Here are six common things that could be standing between you and your weight-loss goals -- plus easy ways to bust through each. 1. You Aren't Track The new fuel for exercise: Maple syrup? 03/26/2015 05:03am • WASHINGTON — It may seem like the perfect example of empty calories, but some experts are saying maple syrup may be worth its weight in high-powered exercise. The website Shape reports that maple syrup might be exactly the thing you want to consume during a run: It’s glucose and almost nothin 5 Smart Credit Habits to Start in Your 20s 03/25/2015 08:00pm • The bad news: Good habits typically need to be taught. Most of us aren't born wanting to work on projects before they're due or cover our mouths when we sneeze. More seriously, our desire to have fun and impress others typically results in the innate desire to spend, spend, spend. The good news: H How to Stay Healthy During a Divorce 03/25/2015 08:00pm • Natalie Greggs, a family law attorney who practices in Allen, Texas, likens divorce to a death. The accompanying stress and grief is comparable to a physical loss, she says, and affects you both physically and emotionally. "I tell my clients, 'Imagine how you're going to react to this death, and h Smoking during pregnancy could alter babies' facial movement in the womb 03/25/2015 12:23pm • WASHINGTON — The harmful effects of smoking on developing babies could also contribute to their behavior in the womb. New research looked at the ultrasounds of 16 nonsmoker mothers and four mothers who smoke. Researchers found that the fetuses of the smokers tended to touch their faces and move Arlington, Montgomery counties top annual healthiest counties ranking 03/25/2015 10:35am • WASHINGTON – Virginia's Arlington County and Maryland's Montgomery County top the annual list of the area’s healthiest counties in a new report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute. The rankings looked at 30 factors, in Study: Smoking while pregnant can cause early puberty, long-term health effects in girls 03/25/2015 02:40am • WASHINGTON — It’s been known for some time that smoking while pregnant can cause a number of health problems for a baby, including low birth weight, asthma, birth defects and sudden infant death syndrome. But a new study adds an additional consequence to the list of risks: Prenatal smoke exposur Calling All People Who Wish They Had an Exercise Buddy 03/24/2015 08:00pm • Patients often tell me they wish they had a friend to exercise with, but with crazy schedules it just never pans out. Here, learn creative ways to leverage the power of friendship to get more physically active. On your next weight-loss attempt, ditch the fad diet and instead try to get by with a li How to Prepare Physically (and Mentally) for a Long-Distance Hike 03/24/2015 08:00pm • For most people, hiking means hitting a local trail on a weekend afternoon to enjoy a couple hours of scenic cardio, fresh air and perhaps solitude. But others crave a more all-consuming experience: a physically and mentally demanding -- yet immensely rewarding -- long-distance hike that takes them 8 Easy Ways to Save More Money Today 03/23/2015 08:00pm • Saving more money doesn't necessarily mean giving up restaurant meals for good or never buying a new outfit again. In fact, there are plenty of ways to save money without making too many sacrifices. The following eight ideas might take a bit of extra effort, but they also have the potential to pay