A couple of weeks ago I turned on Good Morning America while getting ready for work and was struck by a report about Taylor, a 6-year-old girl in Houston who had come home from school and asked her mother why her tummy was so fat. ''A girl in the bathroom at school asked me why I was fat,'' she told her mom. Then at a birthday party, a boy called ...

I saw a news item last week about the Internal Revenue Service ruling breast pumps as a tax-deductible medical expense. The catch is most new moms will need to have a pretax medical spending account established to take advantage of the deduction. Otherwise, the expense is deductible only if the family unit's medical expenses exceed 7.5 percent of ...

If you're one of the 30 percent of Americans who “claims” to have a specific food allergy, a new report may be enticing enough to convince you to be retested to ensure you “really” are allergic to those foods you're avoiding. According to the report “Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States” conducted for ...