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Squirting the sugar substitute xylitol on infants' teeth could help prevent tooth decay, a disease that afflicts an estimated 28 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5, according to a new study.
Arthritis supplements bought by millions of pet owners for their dogs, cats and horses sometimes skimp on the ingredients the makers claim can help aching paws and aging joints, and some contain high amounts of lead, an independent laboratory found.
Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, congressional investigators and nonprofit researchers say in new reports.
An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but Helen Deck thinks bananas might save her a trip to the dermatologist.
DALLAS — One day after the death of Michael Jackson, Heritage Auction Galleries was besieged with calls asking what his memorabilia is worth.
How we feed ourselves has a huge effect on how much cash we keep in our wallets. That's why supermarket-savings advice is ubiquitous in the era of new frugality.
CHICAGO — Times may be tight, but in making your home more energy-efficient it's true that the more you spend the more you save.
CHICAGO — Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates.
I hope you played with your food when you were young. Perhaps you experimented at some point with pushing a drinking straw through Jell-O. If you twisted the straw as you removed it from your food, you could sometimes trap a column of gelatin in the straw. You then had the choice of either blowing the Jell-O at a sibling or, if your parents were at the table, gently squeezing the gelatin out of the straw onto your plate with your fingers.
ATLANTA — Excitement about a trip to Pittsburgh for your brother-in-law's wedding that you booked months in advance suddenly turns to gloom as the telephone rings a couple of hours before your flight.
Summertime -- time to relax, kick back and take it easy? Yes, but it's also the busiest season for the emergency room, doctors say.
It's the season for graduation gifts. And for most high school, college and grad school grads, there's one gift that's king: cash.
Federal authorities are investigating a new national outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, this time related to a sweet treat treasured by the heartbroken and children-at-heart -- packaged raw cookie dough.
I got a letter this week from a debt collection agency claiming that I owe a cable and Internet company $40. The letter also claimed it was the third time the agency had contacted me. Neither is true -- if anything, the cable company owes me money after the five (yes, five) times I had to call to discontinue my service after I moved. A cheery "PAY NOW!" was stamped in red on the front of the envelope.
It's too bad that Michael J. Kitson and Bob Calandra's new job-survival book wasn't out in 1993, when Calandra got canned from his job as senior editor of a health magazine.
Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday.
Students, burdened with big college loans, will be glad to see June end. Because starting July 1, there's a new repayment option on federal student loans that will allow some borrowers to reduce their monthly payments.
At a time of day when he'd ordinarily be rushing off to an afternoon meeting, or checking his e-mail for the 15th time, Perry Drake stood in jeans and a T-shirt in his backyard garden, deciding what to plant next in the spring sunshine.
Motivated as much by frugality as machismo, Tim Longua recently replaced a thermal coupler on the furnace in his Chicago home. Instead of spending what he estimated would be a few hundred dollars, Longua, who teaches eighth grade algebra, chose to tackle it himself. He said he watched a previous repair on his furnace and figured replacing the sensor wouldn't be that big a problem.
Science is full of unexpected discoveries. Just as there can be a breakthrough in negotiating the end to a war that comes to everyone's surprise, or intense spurts in which a writer completes a book in a week, there are times a scientist may feel awash in troubles but then see the world afresh as facts fall into place in a new way.
