Flu season: How many shots?

Advice on when flu needs TLC or a doctor’s care

The Good Thing About Infrequent Exercise

9 Safe Ways to Help Cure Insomnia

Plus lots more.

Get Ready for Ragweed

Wider Waist Boosts Asthma Risk

Tunnels Concentrate Air Pollution By Up To 1,000 Times

Plus lots more.

It’s Not All In Your Head: … Placebo-induced Pain Control

Viagra and Its Ilk Aren’t the Only Treatments Around

More Nutrition Information Systems Hit the Shelves—Do They Work?

Whole Grains, Bran May Fight Hypertension in Men

Plus lots more.

How Bad Feelings Can Harm Your Health

Imaging Sheds Light on How Acupuncture Works

Get More of This Mineral to Prevent Cancer

3 Ways to Beat Your Cravings

Plus lots more.

Tip of the Week: One Day At A Time

What Is Normal Eating?

Attention, Walkers: How to Ease Into Running

Bigger butt may mean fewer hip fractures

Plus lots more.

Heat Stress In Older People And People With Chronic Diseases

Smart Clothes For Better Healthcare

As Waistlines Widen, Brains Shrink

Daylight Could Help Control Our Weight

Plus lots more.

Americans Are Urged to Cut Sugar Intake

Meal Replacements Aid Weight Loss, Study Finds

Low-carb diets may impair vascular health

Research Sheds Light On Sudden Death In People With High Cholesterol

Plus lots more.

Choose This Fatty Dressing for a Smaller Waist

Life events affect women’s exercise

The Best Time to Stretch

The Scent That Soothes Stress

Plus lots more.

Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging

Why Sleep? Snoozing May Be Strategy To Increase Efficiency, Minimize Risk

Robot Cats Purrrrfect for Elderly

Little Known Type Of Cholesterol — Oxycholesterol — May Pose The Greatest Heart Disease Risk

Plus lots more.

Even modest fitness may extend lifespan

Swine Flu Vaccine Seems Safe in Early Trials

High-Octane Caffeine May Trigger Headaches

Daily drinking may raise risk of several cancers

Plus lots more.

Web-Based Psychotherapy Can Work

[Sleep Improves] Heart Health

Heart Risks Rise With Smokeless Tobacco

Increase In Visceral Fat During Menopause Linked With Testosterone

Plus lots more.

The Health Benefits of a Weekend Getaway

CDC says life expectancy in U.S. up

Living Longer And Happier

Anti-aging Gene Linked To High Blood Pressure

Ancient Chinese herbs may help heart

Plus lots more.

Personality Traits Associated With Stress And Worry Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

Antioxidants Abound in Cereals, Popcorn, Whole-Grain Snacks

Ask questions to stretch health dollars

Hospitals Reduce Heart Attack Deaths

Plus lots more.

Faith rites boost brains, even for atheists: book

Inflammation and how it relates to chronic diseases

Key to Affordable Health Care Revealed

Those who run the hardest may get addicted

Plus lots more.

Web Is Becoming One-Stop Shopping for Health Help

Sex may boost workplace problem solving

Eat These Treats, Live Longer

Natural Bug-Bite Deterrents

Plus lots more.

Motor function declines if no socializing

Regular Yoga Practice Is Associated With Mindful Eating

Bad News For Coffee Drinkers Who Get Headaches

Shoes’ toning claims draw experts’ doubts

Plus lots more.

Restrictive Diet … May Backfire

5 Foods That Pack Unexpected Health Benefits

Yoga linked to weight loss in overweight

Quitting smoking causes quick drop in inflammation

Plus lots more.

Ready for Ragweed Allergy Season? These Tips Can Help Fight Pollen Allergy

Osteoporosis drugs effective in killing flu viruses

Make Low-Carb Healthier with This Switch

Eat This for Less Blood Sugar Damage

Plus lots more.

From Drew Westen, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University, founder of Westen Strategies, author of “The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation,” and advisor to the Obama campaign:

[I]f Americans are starting to turn populist anger toward a White House that has doggedly refused to focus that anger where it belongs — toward the banks, the mortgage brokers, the regulators who failed to regulate, the oil companies that have blocked energy reform for decades while racking up record profits, the health insurance companies that make their profits by denying coverage and discriminating against the ill, the pharmaceutical companies whose lobbyists have negotiated away the right to negotiate, and the Republicans who bankrupted the treasury during the eight long years of the Bush Presidency and crashed the economy on their way out — I can understand why.

The American people did not vote for “bipartisan” solutions that split the difference between the failed ideology of the last eight years, which continues to cost thousands of people their jobs and homes every day, and the change the President and the super-majorities they elected in both houses of Congress promised.

My message to Drew Westen:

What about the anger and frustration of those of us who saw through Obama and the hype and the messianic fervor? We tried to warn progressives that he wasn’t one of us, but were shouted down, marginalized, and called racists.

We’re still marginalized.

Just as those who questioned the need for attacking Iraq are still pushed aside instead of being invited to comment on every possible platform. Just as those who warned about the financial collapse are still pushed aside in the same way.

What is to be said about a society that pushes away and refuses to listen to its members who see most clearly what is happening?

High-fat diet affects stamina, thinking

Canning not just for grandma anymore

Study traces steady declines in U.S. cancer deaths

Morning colonoscopy may catch more polyps

Plus lots more.