- via NPR Women who raise a glass just a few times a week appear to have a higher risk of getting breast cancer than those who are teetotalers. A study that looked at the drinking habits and development of breast cancer in more than 100,000 nurses found those who drank more had a small but detectable Read More

On his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel issued a challenge to parents to tell their children that they had eaten all their hard-earned Halloween candy and to post the videos to Youtube. Here are the kids’ reactions:

- via CBS News PORTLAND, Texas – After being flooded with calls, faxes and emails calling for action, a Texas judicial panel is investigating an internet video that shows a judge beating his teenage daughter with a belt.

Do the ‘good looking’ among us  fair better in life? Do they have an advantage over the regular folk…

- via CNN “I won’t even sleep in the same room with them.” A fellow named Daniel Sieberg was telling me his hard-and-fast rule for getting through the night. He takes all of his digital devices — laptops, tablets, cellphones, anything portable that has a screen — to another room before he turns off the Read More

Halloween is here today and while most of us are bracing ourselves for treaters or worse the tricksters headed our way tonight, there are just some pranks you just can’t prepare yourself for. As in scare pranks!

When you’re pregnant, it’s good to feel optimistic. You want to imagine that nothing bad could ever happen to your baby. “My pregnancy will be smooth,” you tell yourself, “and my baby will be healthy.” You maintain this optimism until your relatives comes to visit and start giving you warnings.

Last year this Sesame Street Muppet sang “I love my hair,” a song about loving your hair. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enpFde5rgmw] This year, she shares with us her ambition to “Change the World,” empowering children with the idea that they can be anything they want to be.

- via NPR There are several reasons to be ambivalent about the Your Man Reminder app, and only one of them is sexy. Released just a few days ago, the app comes from ReThink Breast Cancer, a Canadian nonprofit whose website promises it will raise “bold, relevant awareness” about breast cancer by infusing “sass and Read More

via MSNBC Drinking copious amounts of coffee may reduce the risk of the most common type of skin cancer, a new study finds.