Topic “Health”

By Jamie Lampros (Standard-Examiner)

Look inside your handbag. What do you see?

During a walk through the Newgate Mall recently, several women who checked inside their handbags reported the following items: wallet, keys, phone, chewed-up gum, wrappers, receipts, a piece of candy out of its wrapper, toothpicks, bobby pins, ponytail holders, granola bar, lip gloss, mascara, a...

By Will Oremus (Slate)

In an age of breakneck technological and scientific progress, it can seem at times as if anything’s possible. Cars are driving themselves. Robots are tooling around Mars, taking pictures, and beaming them back to Earth. People are moving things with their minds.

For all the exponential advances, though, some technologies remain firmly in...

By Vicky Hallett (The Washington Post)

Some recent finds on the fitness and exercise beat:

• The Bowflex UpperCut ($100, Bowflexuppercut.com), which looks like a step stool with resistance bands between the legs, gives push-ups a pick-me-up. Just place your chest on the pad — harder than it sounds for ladies — to pump out more reps and tougher variations than you could do...

By Jamie Lampros (Standard-Examiner correspondent)

Learn more about sunscreens

We’ve all heard what can happen to our skin if we don’t protect it from the sun’s harmful rays, but how much do we know about protecting our eyes?

Ultraviolet radiation can damage our eyes, and over time can lead to...

By Vicky Hallett (The Washington Post)

Remember that bottle of waterproof sunblock you bought last year? It lied — lotion can’t be waterproof or totally block out harmful rays.

Thanks to new sunscreen labeling rules from the Food and Drug Administration that recently went into effect, misleading terminology has been...