Nancy Szokan The Washington Post

Valery Spiridonov, 31: Russian tech geek who runs an educational software company from his home east of Moscow. Because he has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a genetic disorder that wastes muscles and motor neurons, he is physically capable of little beyond feeding himself, steering his wheelchair with a joystick, and typing. The disease is usually fata...

Of all the things you thought were bad about weighing more than you'd like, you might not have thought of this: a possible unwanted pregnancy.

Of all the things you thought were bad about weighing more than you'd like, you might not have thought of this: a possible unwanted pregnancy.

Hand-grip exercises - squeezing one of those V-shape devices with a resistance spring - can lower your blood pressure by about 10 percent.

The basic structure of Graham's new memoir, "In Memory of Bread" is the sometimes funny, sometimes poignant chronology of how he cured himself.

The most surprising thing about the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the obesity-control device called AspireAssist may be how little mainstream attention it attracted.

In March 2014, a small Internet storm was created around #savejosh, a social media campaign.

You stand in the drugstore, scanning the product information on 20 or 30 brands of sunscreen. SPF, broad spectrum - it all sounds very official, but how do manufacturers prove their products work to the required standard?

Since it was devised in 1950, the Turing Test - named for Alan Turing, hero of "The Imitation Game" - has been the standard way of assessing artificial intelligence: Machines are judged on how well they exhibit intelligent behavior, usually in conversation or game-playing, that to a human listener or observer would be indistinguishable from that of...

If you're not already into meditation, there's something slightly comical about trying to do it. You have to think about thinking. Or, stop thinking about thinking!

The flu virus causes fever, congestion and sore throat. The stomach issues are probably from gastroenteritis, which is a different virus.

You might want to argue with Kate Ashford's article in Prevention magazine, but it's fun to read. Quoting three physicians, she points out "Five Health Conditions That Don't Really Exist":

About 85 percent of adults younger than 50 have experienced it at least once, and the onset of chronic back pain most frequently occurs between the ages of 30 and 50.

The small study, conducted at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was based on a set of assumptions.

It's well known that physical activity is a mood elevator. But writing in "The Athlete's Way" blog on Psychology Today's website, endurance athlete Christopher Bergland discusses a study indicating that combining movement with the attention-focusing benefits of meditation can be an extra-effective tool in fighting depression.

Valery Spiridonov, 31: Russian tech geek who runs an educational software company from his home east of Moscow. Because he has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a genetic disorder that wastes muscles and motor neurons, he is physically capable of little beyond feeding himself, steering his wheelchair with a joystick, and typing. The disease is usually fata...

Of all the things you thought were bad about weighing more than you'd like, you might not have thought of this: a possible unwanted pregnancy.

Of all the things you thought were bad about weighing more than you'd like, you might not have thought of this: a possible unwanted pregnancy.

Hand-grip exercises - squeezing one of those V-shape devices with a resistance spring - can lower your blood pressure by about 10 percent.

The basic structure of Graham's new memoir, "In Memory of Bread" is the sometimes funny, sometimes poignant chronology of how he cured himself.

The most surprising thing about the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the obesity-control device called AspireAssist may be how little mainstream attention it attracted.

In March 2014, a small Internet storm was created around #savejosh, a social media campaign.

You stand in the drugstore, scanning the product information on 20 or 30 brands of sunscreen. SPF, broad spectrum - it all sounds very official, but how do manufacturers prove their products work to the required standard?

Since it was devised in 1950, the Turing Test - named for Alan Turing, hero of "The Imitation Game" - has been the standard way of assessing artificial intelligence: Machines are judged on how well they exhibit intelligent behavior, usually in conversation or game-playing, that to a human listener or observer would be indistinguishable from that of...

If you're not already into meditation, there's something slightly comical about trying to do it. You have to think about thinking. Or, stop thinking about thinking!

The flu virus causes fever, congestion and sore throat. The stomach issues are probably from gastroenteritis, which is a different virus.

You might want to argue with Kate Ashford's article in Prevention magazine, but it's fun to read. Quoting three physicians, she points out "Five Health Conditions That Don't Really Exist":

About 85 percent of adults younger than 50 have experienced it at least once, and the onset of chronic back pain most frequently occurs between the ages of 30 and 50.

The small study, conducted at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was based on a set of assumptions.

It's well known that physical activity is a mood elevator. But writing in "The Athlete's Way" blog on Psychology Today's website, endurance athlete Christopher Bergland discusses a study indicating that combining movement with the attention-focusing benefits of meditation can be an extra-effective tool in fighting depression.