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The heart drug digoxin, the blood thinner warfarin, the painkiller codeine and prednisone are considered mild anticholinergics. Those with the most severe effects include Paxil, Benadryl, a drug for overactive bladder called oxybutynin, and the schizophrenia drug clozapine.

A doctor believes that in health circles, the kitchen should become as crucial as the clinic

Researchers found that a single session of massage caused biological changes, like increases in oxytocin, a hormone associated with contentment.

Nothing but time can cure the common cold, but a simple cup of salt water might ease the misery this winter.

Boosting your immune system could only make your cold symptoms worse.

For a long, fulfilling partnership: give your partner a chance to e-x-p-a-n-d.

In healthy adults, the hippocampus - a part of the brain important to the formation of memories - begins to atrophy around 55 or 60. Now psychologists are suggesting that the hippocampus can be modestly expanded, and memory improved, by nothing more than regular walking.

We all know that physical activity is beneficial in countless ways, but even so, Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, a professor of pediatrics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was startled to discover that exercise kept a strain of mice from becoming gray prematurely.

Nowadays yoga exercises form a centerpiece of his practice. Dr. Fishman, a lifelong devotee of yoga who studied it for three years in India before going to medical school, uses various yoga positions to help prevent, treat, and he says, halt and often reverse conditions like shoulder injuries, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and scoliosis. I rarely devote this column to one doctor's approach to treatment, and I'm not presenting his approach as a cure-all. But I do think it has value. And he has written several well-illustrated books that can be helpful if used in combination with proper medical diagnosis and guidance.

Districts in Colorado have become leaders in the back-to-scratch school lunch movement.

Can regular exercise avert or undo some of the harm associated with binge drinking? Perhaps even better, could exercising beforehand pre-emptively reduce your urge to overindulge in alcohol later? Or does exercising actually drive you to drink? Those questions, relevant to any of us whose memories of New Year's Eve are fuzzy, have been the subject of a growing number of studies recently, with thought-provoking results.

"We do not know how much of the forgone health care will result in serious illness."