Human Body

Aging, and the adverse effect it has on your skin, is inevitable. Crow’s feet — or “laugh lines” or “character lines” — are simply wrinkles that begin forming at the outside corners of your eyes, typically in your mid-20s. They may show up earlier if you don’t take care of you skin, and later if […]

Pop quiz: What chronic disease strikes about 80 percent of the population, including almost all 15- to 17-year-olds, but has no known cause or cure [sources: NIAMS, Williams]? You’d think that an ailment that affects so many people would have doctors scrambling for a cure, or at least publishing study after study about it. There’s […]

Keeping your body sleek and hairless is no easy task – you know that. But what you may not know are the pros and cons of increasingly popular Brazilian waxes. Named for the place that evokes images of sand, surf and teeny tiny bikinis, a Brazilian wax is designed to keep your most intimate areas […]