The Checkup Archive: Prevention

The dangers of walking and talking

Remember the old joke about walking and chewing gum at the same time? Well, there's new evidence out today about what might be the modern equivalent: Walking and talking on a cell phone. And it's no laughing matter. Researchers at the University of Illinois studied 36 college students as they...

More fodder for the fat-but-healthy debate

One of the most divisive and emotional debates regarding obesity is whether being fat automatically equals being unhealthy. While many experts point to mounds of evidence linking excess weight to such life-shortening conditions as cancer, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, others argue that those conditions aren't necessarily caused by...

Getting Guys to Wash Their Hands

We all know that one of the simplest, best ways to stay healthy is to wash our hands a lot, especially these days during the swine flu pandemic. Some new research out Thursday offers clues to what gets people to actually do it. And guess what? Shame appears to be...

Watch Out For That Monitor!

You've heard about all the health problems that can be caused by spending too many hours glued to your computer. Your back may ache from sitting in the wrong position. Your eyes can get bleary from staring at the screen all day. And you can get tendinitis or carpal tunnel...

Sour Economy Hits Health

There's more evidence out this week that the recession is having an impact on people's health. Two new surveys from major doctors' groups indicate that people are cutting back on things that will help keep them healthy and putting off seeing a doctor if they do get sick. In March,...

Learning to Love the Female Condom

When it comes to creating condoms, the folks who make 'em for men have it easy. Male condoms are the essence of simplicity and require little in the way of engineering -- or imagination. By contrast, when the people at The Female Health Company in Chicago set out to make...

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Is That Right? Juicy Juice for Brain Development, Jennifer LaRue Huget , May 15, 2009

How Not to Spread AIDS, Jennifer LaRue Huget , March 16, 2009

Pancreatic Cancer News You Can't Use, Jennifer LaRue Huget , March 13, 2009

Colonoscopy Still Saves Lives, Jennifer LaRue Huget , December 17, 2008

No Flu Shot? What's Your Excuse?, Jennifer LaRue Huget , November 12, 2008

Colon Screening: Ready to Go Virtual?, Jennifer LaRue Huget , September 19, 2008

Hooked on Hookahs, Jennifer LaRue Huget , May 14, 2008

Mucking with My Martini, Jennifer LaRue Huget , April 23, 2008