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Imagine that while eating a delicious meal at your favorite restaurant, your joy is cut short because of difficulty swallowing your food, followed by chest pain. If you go see a doctor about these symptoms, and there is no evidence of a cardiac cause of the chest pain, you could be diagnosed as having some sort of disorder of the […]
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It seems like every week there’s a new dress code implemented at a school — but this time around, we’re learning about a school that’s put in place a new dress code targeting parents. The school is currently making headlines for its parent dress code after a mother named Joselyn Lewis — wearing a headscarf and a T-shirt dress — […]
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That was fast! Christina Anstead is headed into the second half of her pregnancy, and she celebrated with a baby bump pic. “Officially half way done with this pregnancy,” the Flip or Flop star, 35, captioned a Thursday, April 25, Instagram upload. “First trimester went by sooo slow but now time is flying by! And how cute are these angel […]
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Singer Pink Opens a New Window. has always been a proponent of everyone speaking their minds Opens a New Window. — and she wants the world to know that’s especially true for conversations about mental health, depression, anxiety and suicide. “I’m hopeful that the taboo of it is all going away, because more and more people are talking about it,” […]
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As her kids get older, Jennifer Garner‘s beloved Mother’s Day tradition has gotten a little trickier to pull off. “All my kids sit on my lap every Mother’s Day [for a photo],” says the actress, 47, who currently graces the cover of PEOPLE’s 2019 Beautiful Issue. “But they’re getting bigger and it’s hilarious.” “It used to be that [Samuel Garner, […]
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Most people think of optimism as a good thing—a positive outlook in challenging circumstances. But in reality, it’s a psychological state that can be “contagious” in a bad way. A new study, published in the journal Psycho-Oncology, details how a seriously ill patient’s optimism can impact a clinician’s survival prognosis in palliative care conversations. Senior author Robert Gramling, M.D., D.Sc., […]
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The other day, in the grocery store, looking at all of the food I had just put on the belt for the cashier to ring up, I smiled to myself. Fruit roll-ups, juice boxes and individually-sized bags of popcorn were things that I never thought I’d get the chance to buy. Because for a long time, it looked like I […]
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The Lego Braille bricks, to be launched in 2020, feature studs used for characters in the Braille alphabet, along with printed characters for sighted people to read. Visually impaired children will soon be able to learn Braille through play, thanks to toy company Lego which has reportedly come up with Braille bricks to encourage learning in a “playful and engaging […]
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Food Network star Katie Lee is speaking out about her struggle with infertility. “I get multiple messages a day asking me if I’m pregnant or why I am not pregnant yet,” Lee, 37, wrote on Instagram Wednesday. “I get comments saying I look like I’ve gained weight, so I must be pregnant. After one said that I looked ‘thick in […]
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It was a long road to parenthood for Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. “You hear stories about IVF working the first try, but you’ll hear a lot more stories about when it takes a few times,” the supermodel told New York Magazine’s The Cut in April 2018. “Ours didn’t work the first time and it was devastating.” At times, the […]
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