Who would have thought you could contract carpal tunnel syndrome at the oral surgeon’s office? After writing my initials and signing my name on roughly 217 consent forms, I was ready for an ice pack and a wrist wrap.

No…

They operate under names like Granny’s Junction. Inside, among cubbies for winter coats, boxes of Legos and kitchen tables surrounded by booster seats, they offer a lifeline to millions of working mothers and fathers.

The nation’s home-based child care providers…

Earlier this month, President Obama created a task force on childhood obesity to be headed by Michelle Obama, who has taken up the issue as her public-service cause under the banner “Let’s Move.”

Pointing to the nearly one-third of U.S.…

“Mom, I need to ask you something,” my daughter begins as she buckles her seat belt. Knowing the drive to school lasts only six minutes, she must figure the answer will be either concise or embarrassing, so I brace myself…

I’m not sure how to explain my reticence to speak up.

Perhaps the dark-brown muck oozing its way into the roots of my hair is causing me to doubt my credibility. Perhaps the aluminum foil squares hanging wildly in my…

Perhaps most curious of all the results of the recently released Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) study "Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds" are the headlines it has generated.

"Researchers shocked at kids’ online time," says one.…

The television hanging above my head in the waiting room airs an episode of the syndicated talk show “The Doctors.” The topic? Sex.

But not just sex. Graphic sex. The guest talks candidly to the show’s regular cadre of physicians…

A message for Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi: I am not a hater.

I can see why you’d come to that conclusion after last week, when my comments about you and the show on which you appear, MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” made their…

The billboards are everywhere. On one, a child’s tiny toes rest atop the big, burly feet of a man, suggesting a playful moment between a dad and his toddler. Another portrays a laughing boy being chased by what appears to…

Sneakers? Check. Morning TV show to pass 40 minutes on an elliptical machine? Check. Soft-core porn advertising for the commercial break? Check.

Who knew you could burn so many extra calories at the local gym just being humiliated by the…