Nutritional supplements are a $26 billion-a-year industry, but there is no Food and Drug Administration oversight. It’s up to watchdogs like Consumer Reports to keep the public informed. Recently, the magazine consulted clinical research and case reports to come up with its list of “12 supplements you should avoid.” Take our quiz based on the [...]

Dear SOS: Last February I ate dinner at the Oceanaire Seafood Room in Washington, D.C. Can you get the recipe for the crab cakes? — Ellen, Monrovia, Calif. Dear Ellen: Oceanaire Seafood Room was happy to share its recipe for these tender, soft crab cakes. The cakes are baked, not fried, and can be made [...]

Anxiety can be a problem for some college and university freshmen, but there are a number of ways they can cope with new experiences and challenges, an expert suggests. The first step is to get to know your anxiety, Martin M. Antony, a psychology professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, advises in a university [...]

At a time he should have been enjoying his last couple of years of high school, Ed Cwalinski spent most of it bedridden, wracked by painful, debilitating muscular contractions caused by the neurological disorder dystonia. “I was curled up in a ball for two years,”Cwalinski, now 28, recalled. “I was home-schooled. I couldn’t bathe. I [...]