Marlene Cimons The Washington Post

Chronic itch can be because of dry skin and skin disorders like psoriasis, eczema or painfully familiar conditions such as bug bites or poison ivy. Here's everything you need to know about chronic itch.

Nobody knows why some people sleep long, although researchers suspect genetics may be involved.

Athletes who perform multiple bouts of high intensity exercise, which result in compounding increases in core temperature, may benefit greater from recovery periods that utilize cooling modalities, and females may benefit even more

A geriatrician is a doctor who specializes in caring for the complex medical problems of the elderly.

A migraine is much more than just a terrible headache. To be sure, migraine typically involves a painful throbbing headache, most times on one side of the head, sometimes both.

Everyone is born with a hole in the heart. During pregnancy, this hole allows blood to bypass the fetal lungs - and deliver oxygen to the unborn baby's heart and brain. The small opening, located between the left and right chambers, usually closes on its own within a few months after birth.

Exercise dogma long has extolled the value of stretching, usually as a warm-up before exercise or as a cool-down afterward. Read here to know why stretching is important for your muscles.

Currently used for patients for whom an open-heart surgery can be fatal, doctors are trying make transcatheter aortic valve replacement a treatment for all patients with an aortic valve disease.

A drug which could stimulate the body into producing the same effects of exercise - without the need to run a single step - may be on the way.

Many people engage to some extent in nail biting or skin picking. But when these behaviors become extreme and out of control, they are regarded as serious disorders.

More than five million people will die from a frightening cause: breathing.

Do you sometimes find yourself losing focus on the job? Is your thinking a little fuzzy? It could be something in the air - and you and your co-workers may be the source.

Mary Harada's father lived to 102, healthy and sharp to the end. She wouldn't mind living that long, if she could stay as mentally and physically fit as he was. "He died sitting in his chair,'' says Harada, 80, a retired history professor who lives in West Newbury, Mass. "He was in excellent shape until his heart stopped.''

Mary Harada's father lived to 102, healthy and sharp to the end. She wouldn't mind living that long, if she could stay as mentally and physically fit as he was.

The New England Centenarian Study began studying very old people and their offspring in 1995, setting out to determine - among other things - which characteristics people 100 and older seem to share.

Chronic itch can be because of dry skin and skin disorders like psoriasis, eczema or painfully familiar conditions such as bug bites or poison ivy. Here's everything you need to know about chronic itch.

Nobody knows why some people sleep long, although researchers suspect genetics may be involved.

Athletes who perform multiple bouts of high intensity exercise, which result in compounding increases in core temperature, may benefit greater from recovery periods that utilize cooling modalities, and females may benefit even more

A geriatrician is a doctor who specializes in caring for the complex medical problems of the elderly.

A migraine is much more than just a terrible headache. To be sure, migraine typically involves a painful throbbing headache, most times on one side of the head, sometimes both.

Everyone is born with a hole in the heart. During pregnancy, this hole allows blood to bypass the fetal lungs - and deliver oxygen to the unborn baby's heart and brain. The small opening, located between the left and right chambers, usually closes on its own within a few months after birth.

Exercise dogma long has extolled the value of stretching, usually as a warm-up before exercise or as a cool-down afterward. Read here to know why stretching is important for your muscles.

Currently used for patients for whom an open-heart surgery can be fatal, doctors are trying make transcatheter aortic valve replacement a treatment for all patients with an aortic valve disease.

A drug which could stimulate the body into producing the same effects of exercise - without the need to run a single step - may be on the way.

Many people engage to some extent in nail biting or skin picking. But when these behaviors become extreme and out of control, they are regarded as serious disorders.

More than five million people will die from a frightening cause: breathing.

Do you sometimes find yourself losing focus on the job? Is your thinking a little fuzzy? It could be something in the air - and you and your co-workers may be the source.

Mary Harada's father lived to 102, healthy and sharp to the end. She wouldn't mind living that long, if she could stay as mentally and physically fit as he was. "He died sitting in his chair,'' says Harada, 80, a retired history professor who lives in West Newbury, Mass. "He was in excellent shape until his heart stopped.''

Mary Harada's father lived to 102, healthy and sharp to the end. She wouldn't mind living that long, if she could stay as mentally and physically fit as he was.

The New England Centenarian Study began studying very old people and their offspring in 1995, setting out to determine - among other things - which characteristics people 100 and older seem to share.