Every morning, Lisa Strong's 10-year-old son lifts her heavy prosthetic legs and screws them into the levers in her knees. He reaches for a pair of pants and pulls them up around her waist.
When you get angry, the stress isn't restricted to your head. New research shows that anger actually triggers electrical changes in the heart, which can predict future arrhythmias in some patients.
Oral surgeon Dr. Gary Bouloux is about to pull a diseased wisdom tooth from his patient's mouth, using forceps that look like a pair of silver pliers.
Michael Phelps, who scored his fifth gold medal at the world championships in Rome, Italy, last weekend, has a body that frequently propels him to world record speeds in the pool.
In a race to beat the flu season, medical institutes across the United States will begin human trials for a new H1N1 flu vaccine starting in early August, the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday.
A University of Georgia professor shot and killed his wife and two other adults in Athens, Georgia, in late April, according to police. A U.S. soldier fired on fellow troops in early May at a counseling center at a base outside Baghdad, Iraq, killing five comrades, according to authorities.
What was the name of that guy with that stuff in that place with those things? Don't you remember?
I have been depressed my whole life, mostly because of my life as a child and because I am unable to connect with people. I have had two really close friends in my life. I am socially inept, and things just blurt out of my mouth. I want to connect with people and stop being so antisocial, but when I try, people just look at me strangely or find some other reason to avoid me. I was misdiagnosed with bipolar because I had extreme moods but that has calmed down significantly as I get older. I want to break out of this but I can't figure out how. Am I doomed to spend the rest of my life as a socially inept outcast? The ironic thing is that I'm a psychology major who wants to go into counseling. Go figure.
Debbie Street experienced a spiritual crisis after watching her mother-in-law die.
Forget incompetent financiers, weak regulations and big bonuses, scientists now say the real cause of the financial crisis could actually be down to a quirk of the human brain.
Every morning, Lisa Strong's 10-year-old son lifts her heavy prosthetic legs and screws them into the levers in her knees. He reaches for a pair of pants and pulls them up around her waist.
When you get angry, the stress isn't restricted to your head. New research shows that anger actually triggers electrical changes in the heart, which can predict future arrhythmias in some patients.
Oral surgeon Dr. Gary Bouloux is about to pull a diseased wisdom tooth from his patient's mouth, using forceps that look like a pair of silver pliers.
Michael Phelps, who scored his fifth gold medal at the world championships in Rome, Italy, last weekend, has a body that frequently propels him to world record speeds in the pool.
In a race to beat the flu season, medical institutes across the United States will begin human trials for a new H1N1 flu vaccine starting in early August, the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday.
A University of Georgia professor shot and killed his wife and two other adults in Athens, Georgia, in late April, according to police. A U.S. soldier fired on fellow troops in early May at a counseling center at a base outside Baghdad, Iraq, killing five comrades, according to authorities.
What was the name of that guy with that stuff in that place with those things? Don't you remember?
I have been depressed my whole life, mostly because of my life as a child and because I am unable to connect with people. I have had two really close friends in my life. I am socially inept, and things just blurt out of my mouth. I want to connect with people and stop being so antisocial, but when I try, people just look at me strangely or find some other reason to avoid me. I was misdiagnosed with bipolar because I had extreme moods but that has calmed down significantly as I get older. I want to break out of this but I can't figure out how. Am I doomed to spend the rest of my life as a socially inept outcast? The ironic thing is that I'm a psychology major who wants to go into counseling. Go figure.
Debbie Street experienced a spiritual crisis after watching her mother-in-law die.
Forget incompetent financiers, weak regulations and big bonuses, scientists now say the real cause of the financial crisis could actually be down to a quirk of the human brain.
Greek physician Hippocrates was the first to use the words "carcinos" and "carcinoma" in 400 BC to describe tumors, which led to the term "cancer" being coined.
Doom and gloom were everywhere in 2008. It's not surprising, then, that people are longing for a return to normal, or at least to something a little less painful.
A woman in rural Papua New Guinea was bound and gagged, tied to a log and set ablaze on a pile of tires this week, possibly because villagers suspected her of being a witch, police said Thursday.
Arriving at your uncle's holiday party in suitable dress and good cheer, you are greeted at the door by an old friend from school whose name, you suddenly realize, you cannot recall.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Charles L. Raison, M.D., although whenever anyone calls me "Charles" instead of "Chuck" I get nervous, because as a kid I was called Charles only when I was in trouble.
"Now, come, travel back in time. See where and how these rulers lived," Harrison Ford's deep voice beckons just before double doors swing open into a labyrinth of galleries displaying more than 130 ancient Egyptian artifacts.
The government approved a new genetic test for the flu virus Tuesday that will allow labs across the country to identify flu strains within four hours instead of four days
A new plan that would effectively fine Alabama state employees who don't monitor their health is set to start early next year.
It's the middle of the night and Steven Ford is wide awake.
Ramin Ostadhosseini needed to vent, and this gathering seemed the place to do it.
Remember peeking through a View-Master? Scientists are using the same concept behind the classic kids' toy to try to see mammograms in 3-D
The Southwest has the lowest health insurance coverage in the country, with 30 percent of non-elderly adults and 18 percent of children uninsured, according to a new government study
Double latte in the morning, soda with lunch, energy drink at midday. Sound familiar?
It's a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients' nerve circuitry fires
I am not a Trekkie but most days, I feel like I could be living on the starship Enterprise.
Sen. Barack Obama is saddled with a potentially toxic image problem: that he has an elitist attitude.
It is a perennial problem for female executives with their sights set on the boardroom -- act feminine and be overlooked, or become more assertive and risk appropriating the worst aspects of male managerial bullishness.
A groundbreaking new study helps explain why some people succumb to post-traumatic stress disorder while others don't
According to business school tradition, the route to the top involves a mid-career hiatus to take an MBA before forging ahead into the boardroom. But there is another way -- the undergraduate path.
It's the season for giving and receiving -- yes, of course, gifts and food and holiday cheer, but also something you probably don't want: germs.
College senior Lisa Hamlett is looking forward to going home to Crossville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, but she hasn't always been so enthusiastic about spending Thanksgiving vacation with her parents.
If you want to stand up tall when you're old, you might want to start when you're young. While osteoporosis, or thinning of bone density, usually hits most women after they have gone through menopause, there are steps they can take in their early years to lessen just how much bone they eventually lose.
Sean Penn's film about a middle-class dropout who confronts the Alaskan wilderness could have used more irony, says Richard Schickel
For the first time, an osteoporosis drug has reduced deaths and prevented new fractures in elderly patients with broken hips, according to new research.
Rebbeca Turner wasn't prepared for the breast cancer diagnosis she received nine months ago. "Nobody is prepared," she said. "There is definitely an initial shock ... but you deal with it, get a plan, move forward and try to beat it."
The number of adults without health insurance jumped by 2 million from 2005 to 2006, according to a new federal report
Along with teaching executives how to make a lot of money, business schools increasingly lead the way in ethical and socially-focused projects, as detailed before in Executive Education (see here).
Meet Dr.Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent, during the U.S. tour for his new book "Chasing Life." Please continue to check this page which will be updated as new tour dates are added.
Tired of making New Year's resolutions and struggling to succeed? CNN Medical Correspondent Judy Fortin got some advice from two experts, psychologist Nadine Kaslow of Emory University and professional trainer Robert Dothard.
In Hawaii's opening game of the college football season, running back Nate Ilaoa was knocked out of the game in the second quarter.
While an MBA might be seen as the standard passport to big business success, increasing numbers of young students are now looking at a more direct route to the top: undergraduate business degrees.
The most richly endowed colleges and universities in North America got even richer in the 12 months ended June 30, according to the latest data available from the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
"Yes, starting a vineyard with no real experience was a calculated risk. But hey -- life is short," says Hilda Jones.
Former President Bill Clinton said his weight problem and brush with death are the catalysts behind his foundation's initiative of tackling childhood obesity.
Climate change could have drastic consequences.
Poor countries have cancer rates much closer to those of rich nations, reversing a long-held belief among medical researchers, a study released Thursday reports.
SALEM, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Forget Trump. Next week, student teams from a dozen business schools will test their real estate savvy in the third annual Real Estate Challenge.
Bill Clinton is an excellent candidate to make a full, quick recovery from coronary bypass surgery, a cardiologist said Friday.
This week in The Inside Edge, I complete "Top 11" list for the Democratic ticket.
It's easy enough to think of big companies that have gotten bigger through mergers or acquisitions--Citigroup and Berkshire Hathaway come to mind. But how many big companies have gotten truly huge ...
Bull markets, so they say, climb a wall of worry. This one has vaulted right over anxiety and leaped to euphoria.
Editor's note: As part of our coverage of the 2004 election season, CNN.com is sending correspondents to the colleges where they studied to report on issues affecting today's young voters. In this edition, Andy Walton returns to his alma mater, Emory University.
Bull markets, so they say, climb a wall of worry. This one has vaulted right over anxiety and leaped to euphoria.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Friday he was embarrassed by the Georgia Department of Education proposal to eliminate the word "evolution" from the state's curriculum.
A regular dose of sit-ups, the standard thinking goes, is as valuable as the old apple a day. You break a sweat, strengthen your midsection, and look respectable come that annual escape to Maui. ¶ ...
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE AMERICAN APPETITE Darden Restaurants shares fell this September after an all-you-can-eat "Endless Crab" promotion ate up profits at its Red Lobster chain. Customers came bac...
Last fall my nephew Matt applied to college. When he wasn't working on his list of schools, he was visiting them. When he wasn't visiting, he was honing his personal statement. It took patience on ...
When I was in school, I wasn't much of a science buff: I took the courses I had to take and did well enough to get by, but I hardly had a passion for it. So when senior writer Jason Zweig approache...
Now that the whole nasty business is over--the false accusations, the police threats, the lies, the broken promises, the wrecked career--a couple of questions just won't go away. Why did it really ...
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld learned about surveillance cameras the hard way. The business school professor and self-styled leadership sage had just defected from Atlanta's Emory University to rival Georgia ...
Last year, graphic designer Sheri Wood found out that she had thyroid cancer. Isolated from big-city medical resources--she lives in rural Versailles, Kentucky--she turned to the Web to learn more ...
Elvis Grbac, backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, has had ample opportunity to prove himself lately while starter Steve Young has been injured. Grbac has been superb, leaving no doubt th...
Like most parents, you're probably hoping that your offspring's ultimate five- or six-figure tuition tab will lead to a prompt payoff in the job market. Indeed, even before kids enroll in college, ...
Colleges call them non-need-based awards, merit money or just plain scholarships. Whatever the name, they can sharply reduce a bright and ambitious student's college costs, or even eliminate them e...
Ely Callaway, 72, is making loads of money off an addiction that afflicts millions of Americans -- golf. An admitted former addict who now has his habit under control, he runs Callaway Golf, a fast...
SO THEY STOPPED inviting you to the quarterly meeting, the one where they talk about everyone who isn't there. Then you got a new office, smaller than your last one and not on the floor where the b...
Some CEOs like it really lonely at the top. An estimated 15% of those who head FORTUNE 500 companies cling to all three top jobs -- chairman, chief executive officer, and president (see table for a...
Surprisingly, you could do worse. About 10% of the 1,000 biggest public companies in the U.S. are run by chief executives who have held the job for more than two decades. But that doesn't mean ther...
In which we inaugurate Keeping Up's first annual report on sexual harassment (SH). Although not identified as a social problem in the first 1,979 years of the Christian Era, SH now threatens to ove...
For three decades now, thanks to insurance and Medicare, consumers have paid relatively little out of their own pockets for medical services. Lacking compelling reasons to trade off costs against b...
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