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December can be stressful. But you and your family can adopt some new traditions that may help ease the season's stress and make your holidays healthy and happy.

Over-the-counter (OTC) cough and pain relievers, laxatives, and headache remedies may treat different conditions, but they all have one thing in common: They're serious medicines that need to be taken with care.

Hepatitis C is a liver disease. It is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Over time, HCV can lead to cirrhosis of the liver or liver cancer. Most people who have hepatitis C don't have any symptoms for years. Many don't know that they are infected until their liver is already damaged.

Although most medicines are safe when you take them the right way, some of them can cause dizziness, loss of consciousness, bleeding, irregular heartbeats, and other side effects in some cases.

If you are what you eat, that's even more true for your teeth and gums. When you drink and eat starchy foods, you're not only feeding yourself--you're feeding the plaque that can cause havoc in your mouth.

Scrapes and sprains are a fact of life for most children, so it's good to know what to do when they come home with a minor injury.

The number of older people losing their vision is growing, yet experts say much of this vision loss could be prevented.

A good guideline to follow is that a medical emergency is any time your child has an injury or illness you believe threatens their health or may cause permanent harm.

Stretching can keep your lower legs limber and your joints pain free.