By definition, a placebo is anything that seems to be a real medicine but isn’t. It can take many forms, a capsule, a pill, a saline injection, or oral liquid. Whatever the form, placebos do not contain any active ingredient meant to affect your health. Yet, often they...

Robotic-assisted surgery, medical nanobots, and therapeutic exoskeletons used to be the stuff of sciencefiction. Today, the field of medical robotics has stepped out of the fantasy world and into our research labs, hospitals, and clinics. The current aims of medical ro...

I grew up eating vegetables that exclusively came from cans. Don’t get me wrong, my mom was a great parent. She followed the one meat, one starch, one vegetable mindset of her time. But like most families we knew, our spinach, peas, and corn were all canned. I was 40 b...

We’ve just dipped our toes into the new year, and now’s a better time than ever to start mapping out your goals by resolving to take charge of your health. It’s all too easy to put off doctor visits and neglect basic preventative care. Taking control of your overall he...

MAKE-AHEAD MORNING BITES THAT YOU CAN GRAB QUICK AND ENJOY ON THE GO FOR A GOOD START TO THE DAY AHEAD.

EASY HAM & SPINACH EGG BITES

MAKES: 6 EGG BITES | TIME: 30 MINUTES

INGREDIENTS:

6 eggs
salt & pepper
2 cups spinach, torn into pieces4 slices of deli ham, chopped
1...

I once sold a house thanks to the wafting aroma of yeast bread on a cold wintry day in Dallas. In 2014, my house was for sale and our culinarily gifted daughter had just pulled a warm, made-

from-scratch yeast bread out of the oven. A warm inviting home and fresh baked...

Gum recession happens to people of all ages. Most of us aren’t aware of it right away

because gum loss usually occurs gradually over time. Symptoms include but are not

limited to tooth sensitivity, pain at the gum line, exposed roots, and swollen gums.

You can take proact...

CHANGE IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE. I HAVE CHANGED. I AM CONVINCED YOU CAN CHANGE. THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE OFTEN START NEW THINGS IN OUR ATTEMPTS TO BETTER OURSELVES BUT SELDOM HAVE THE ABILITY TO FIND THE SUCCESS AND DESIRED RESULTS THAT WE SO DESPERATELY WANT. WHY IS THAT?

We...

There’s no better way to care for someone than to whip up a batch of feel-good comfort food that might just conjure up some childhood memories

CLASSIC VEGETABLE SOUP

MAKES: 12 BOWLS | TIME: 1 HOUR

INGREDIENTS:

2 Tbsp. olive oil | 2 cups thinly sliced onions | 1 cup sliced...

For Texans, fall brings an abundance of wonderful things. Cooler weather, football, pumpkin patches, Halloween, and Thanksgiving are a few of the season’s delights.

Unfortunately, fall is also flu season, and infection can mean several days of fever, aches, pains, and o...