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Health advocate Rebecca Onie describes how our health care system can be restructured to prevent — and not just treat — illness.

With books like Stiff and Spook, Roach has built a reputation for making unpalatable subjects entertaining. In Gulp, she tackles the human digestive system, from the mouth on down.

The human nose may be able to distinguish more than a trillion different odors and fragrances, research hints. If true, our noses are much more discerning with smells than our eyes are with color.

Defiance and other behavior problems are common in children, and counseling can help. Offering mental health care at the pediatrician's office made it much more likely that children would attend.

The approach made popular by Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't work for most people, according to psychiatrist Lance Dodes. In fact, he says, the steps can actually be harmful to the majority of addicts.

That means the White House reached its revised enrollment goal for the first year the Affordable Care Act was in full effect.

There are lots of apps out there that claim to improve your mental health, but precious few have actually been tested to see if they work. Psychologists are starting to give that a try.

Freshening up your mouth with a regular rinse could come with a long-term health hazard. But cancer specialists are far more concerned about tobacco, alcohol and betel nut chewing.

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/033014_3.mp3Losing your hearing is troubling for many reasons. But did you know that it may lead to depression?

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/033014_7.mp3Christopher Jones, M.D., is the lead author of a new study that found many clinical researchers left…