Harvard Commentaries 35320 Harvard Commentaries • Does Being a 'Lefty' Affect Your Health? • What Are You Yawning About? • Natural Disasters -- Sources of Disease? • How Much of the Brain Do We Really Use? • The Ups and Downs of Body Temperature • Do Alternative Treatments and Vitamin Supplements Work? • Sleep: What's Going on Behind That Shut-Eye? • Cramps: What They Are, What To Do • 10 Osteoporosis Myths • In Search of the Elusive Aphrodisiac: Sex, Food and Myth • How Does a Myth Get Started? • Anatomy 101: Know Your Body Parts • Arthritis -- From Myth to Fact • Age and Arthritis -- Facts and Fiction • Taking Baby Out and About • Whether Weather Matters For Arthritis • Radiation and Your Health • Will a Beer Really Quench That Summer Thirst? • Testosterone -- What It Does And Doesn't Do • Is Exercise Always Good for You? • Circumspection for Circumcision • Are Beer and Wine Less Strong Than Liquor? • The Myth of Bags Under the Eyes • The Real Dangers of Lightning • Putting the Apple-a-Day Adage to the Test • Nutrients: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing? • What It Means To Be 'Double-Jointed' • Cancer's Fine Line • The Top 10 Things That Don't Cause Arthritis • Facts and Myths About Anemia • Can You Wear Out Your Joints? • Getting a Flu Shot -- Will it Cause the Flu? • Choosing Your Six-Pack: Abdominal Muscles and Pot Bellies • Real-Time Medical Care • Can You Really Throw Your Back Out? • 10 Flu Myths • Old Age: It's Tough, But It Won't Kill You • The Myth and Mystery of Hiccups • 'Whole-Body' MRI — A Good Stocking Stuffer This Holiday? • Does Nighttime Noshing Make You Fat? • Is Kissing Dangerous? • Stomach Growling and Other Bodily Noises: Embarrassing, But a Sign of Health • Lifting the Myth Off Hernias • His and Her Vitamins -- Smart Medicine or Marketing Ploy? • Worried Gray? • Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss • Which Hangover Cures Work? • Why Timing Is Important in Medicine • Myths About Snoring • Exercise and Your Menstrual Cycle: Does Time of the Month Matter? • Computer Use and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome • Goosebumps • What Makes a Good Doctor? • Vitamin Supplements: Are They for Everyone? • Can You Become Immune to Medications? • How Inhaling Helium Affects Your Voice • A Handful of Fingernail Myths • Calling in the Replacements • The Hair-Raising Myth About Shaving • The Lie of Lie Detectors • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Names and Claims • The Truth About Premarital Blood Testing • Useless Organs • Does Metabolism Matter in Weight Loss? • Praying for Health • Organs With Plenty To Spare • CPR: Less Effective Than You Might Think • Poinsettia, Mistletoe and Other Holiday 'Dangers' • Breaking Down Bone Myths • Menstrual Synchrony • The Quick and Dirty on Tetanus • From Ulcers To Deodorant -- Dispelling Teen Myths • No Match for Tick Removal • Do Big Voices Need Big Bodies? • Growing Pains • Does a Sneeze Mean Disease? • Licking Your Wounds • Coffee -- Grounds for Concern? • Yikes, Lice! • Advice You Can Safely Ignore About Getting Pregnant • Power Lines and Your Health • Toads and Frogs -- Friend or Foe? • Medical Myths Die Hard • Twelve Myths About Pregnancy • Don't Fall for These Skin Myths • The Mercury Myth • Mixing Antibiotics and Alcohol • The Little Things We Do • Gender Matters in Health • Boy or Girl? Determining a Baby's Gender • How Diseases Come and Go • Leaving a Mark -- How and Why We Scar • Diet and Diverticulitis • The Organic Advantage • The Unexpected Benefits of 'Bad' Habits • 'Expired' Medicines -- Are They Safe? • Medical Myth -- Modern Medicine Is Wiping Out Disability • Can Coffee Really Stunt Your Growth? • Milk Myths • 'I'm Such a Klutz!' • Should You Avoid Dairy Foods When You're Sick? • Do Presidents Age Faster? • How Helpful Are Birthing Classes? • Common Conditions with Misleading Symptoms • Nosebleeds -- Separating Fact From Fiction • What Your Doctor Doesn't Know • Cherries for Gout -- Myth or Marvel? • What Makes a Disease Real? • The Turkey Coma -- Fact or Fiction? • Does Milk Cause Prostate Cancer? • Can Sex Be a Health Hazard? • Are All Steroids Bad? • The Pros and Cons of Medical Tests • Sleep -- Can You Get Too Much of a Good Thing? • Are You Worried Well? • The '8 Glasses Per Day' Rule • Forget What You Heard About Amnesia • A Dangerous Myth: If It's Over The Counter, It Must Be Safe • Groin Injuries and Your Voice • Acne and the Role of Diet • Will a Routine Physical Uncover Every Problem? • Sugar's Role in Diabetes • Nearing a Cancer Cure? • Does Bad Posture Cause Scoliosis? • Does Diet Play a Role in Arthritis? • Does Food Cause Ulcers? • The Limits of Willpower • The Promise and Pitfalls of Patient Empowerment • I Can't Take It! -- Side Effects, Intolerance and Allergic Reactions to Medicines • The Seeds of Worry • Is Gout a Rich Person's Disease? • Doctor, How Long Have I Got? • Can We Predict Height? • The Best Ways To Deal With a Fever • The Right Way To Handle a Seizure • The 'Ripening' of Cataracts • Medical Myth Prevention -- Understanding Medical News • Myths About Vision • The Hazards of Bathroom Seats • The Influence of Sugar on Childhood Behavior • Airing Out a Lung Cancer Myth • The Myth of 98.6 • Eating and Swimming • Four Common Myths About Allergies  •  A Parent's Life  •  Woman to Woman  •  Focus on Fitness  •  Medical Myths  •  Healthy Heart  •  Highlight on Drugs  •  Food for Thought  •  What Your Doctor Is Saying  •  What Your Doctor Is Reading  •  Minding Your Mind  •  Man to Man