Health & Family

Recent headlines offered a fresh example of how the health care system subjects people to too many medical tests – this time research showing millions of older women don’t need their bones checked for osteoporosis nearly so often.

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.

The day one man's training pumped another man's heart

By Steve Lyttle | E-mail | February 7, 2012

It's been more than 17 months since Mecklenburg County man's life was saved by driver-education teacher and paramedic, but time hasn't erased emotion Tom McCann feels about people who gave him a second chance.

Reunited in observance of American Heart Month

Queens nursing programs assessed

By Karen Garloch | E-mail | February 7, 2012

Even after two years of scrutiny, too few graduates of the associate-degree nursing program at Queens University of Charlotte are passing the national licensing exam on the first try.

Don't bicker or simmer: Argue!

By Jeff Strickler | Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | February 7, 2012

When Bob Gubrud heard about a recent survey saying that arguing with your spouse at least once a week makes for stronger, longer marriages, he quipped: "That must mean that our marriage is fantastic, because sometimes we have one a day."