Alternative Medicine

An estimated 6,000 women in the US reach menopause every day (about two million annually).The most common menopausal complaints include hot flashes, sleep disturbances, anxiety, poor mood, and physical and mental exhaustion. Hot flashes affect 80 percent of peri- or postmenopausal women, with 30 percent reporting hot flashes severe enough to seriously affect their quality of life.

Adults across the US rate not getting enough exercise as the top health concern for children in 2012, according to a new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

Backpacks are a necessary item on all back-to-school lists. As students gear up for back-to-school this fall, Minnesota chiropractors would like to offer parents ways to help children avoid backpack injuries.

"Food coaches" are becoming as hard for colleges to find as accurate, strong-armed quarterbacks, but 14 of the nation's top 25 college football teams in USA Today's preseason coaches' poll have hired at least one full-time sports registered dietitian (Sports RD) in the past few years to shift emphasis from feeding athletes to fueling them.