Health & Family

Latest advice: Warm up, work out, stretch last

OK, time for your daily workout. Put on the sweats, lace up the sneakers and now to get limbered up with some long, deep stretches ... Not so fast there, Jane Fonda.

Stretch after workout

Database: Charlotte-area health resources
Finding the right sources for health care or social services can be daunting. The Charlotte Observer has compiled this list of resources to assist local consumers in that search.

Wheeler: This time, don’t be drawn into a breastfeeding battle

By Burgetta Eplin Wheeler | E-mail | 1:23PM

The provocative Time magazine cover asks “Are you mom enough?” I say enough of pitting mother against mother.

U.S. aims to halt Alzheimer's by 2025

By LAURAN NEERGAARD | AP Medical Writer | May 15, 2012

Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease - by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.

Alzheimer's plan goals: slow threat, help families

In sperm banks, untested genetic disease

By Jacqueline Mroz | New York Times | May 15, 2012

Sharine and Brian Kretchmar of Yukon, Okla., tried a number of medical treatments to conceive a second child. After a depressing series of failures, a doctor finally advised them to find a sperm donor.