I walked into my first appointment with my OB-GYN after learning I was pregnant, feeling a combination of nervous and excited. Even though I am a doctor myself, and I’m used to the typical process for ...

For many people, the worst part of going to the doctor’s office is not the waiting time, the required co-pays, the thought of getting your blood drawn, or having a pap smear. One of the biggest fears ...

Ginny Jones created the cards after her own experience with an eating disorder. Dani Donovan, a 30-year-old woman from Omaha, Nebraska, said she spent the better part of a decade going to different ...

Lori Maughan hates stepping on the scale every time she visits one of her doctors. Maintaining a healthy weight has been difficult for the 66-year-old Edinboro woman. Getting weighed is a reminder of ...

You may be shocked to hear this, but I really hate going to the doctor. Yes, yes, I could write an entire encyclopedia on this subject, and so could you, but I’ll try to limit it to the tiny space ...

Medical spaces are a unique combination of majorly stressful and potentially boring—a combo that can lead to etiquette mistakes with serious consequences, says Lizzie Post, the co-president of the ...

A couple of conversations I’ve heard in the past few days made me recall a study I did a while back to try to assess the accuracy of home scales. A perennial remark in the doctor’s office when a ...

CANTON Your friendly neighborhood supermarket is selling bananas for 52 cents per pound, but how can you be certain you're getting what you pay for when it comes to weighing your potassium-packed ...