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What practical steps can you take to extend your health span and achieve a longer, healthier life, regardless of your age?

While current health news articles warn of the expanding problem of obesity in adults, our children are growing into the problem as well.

Prue Leith, international food expert and chair of the United Kingdom’s School Food Trust, discusses current health news and family relationships.

The whole planet is being assaulted by human beings and human activity. What's the key to our survival?

The history of a small town in Pennsylvania offers a timeless lesson on the importance of social support for both physical and mental well-being.

Experts predict that the avian flu virus will likely mutate and cause a human pandemic. How might that happen, and what can we do?

Are data and statistics useful for assessing truth, or are they little more than weapons in a war between clashing worldviews?

Disease epidemics were once explained as expressions of God’s implacable anger over our sinful human nature. Then came modern science.

Vision explores the potential of a flu pandemic through two authors who address different aspects of the issue.

With a glut of information at our fingertips, three authors not only discuss the challenge of determining whom we can trust but also offer some helpful guidelines.

Researchers and policy makers around the world struggle to lead human germ-line editing into the future.

Before deciding how we give for humanitarian relief, and to whom we give, we need to be as sure as we can that we are giving wisely and effectively.

How you read the title of this article may say something about your view of failure—and about the likelihood of your eventual success.

Propaganda is about manipulation. But over the past century, the concept itself has been manipulated. Do you still recognize it when you see it?

With the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster still haunting Southeast Asia, Vision looks at other potential trouble spots on the earth's fragile surface.

What can parents do to shield children from the pressure to grow up too fast?

Insight Video: Abuse of topsoil and soil erosion are growing problems around the world; without healthy soil, we can’t produce healthy food. It’s a global issue, yet the solution is essentially local.

Synthetic chemicals have become embedded in all aspects of our lives. What will it take to reverse their toxic effect—on our bodies and on our world?

One of parenthood’s great challenges is teaching children to display active concern for others. How can parents encourage their kids to be helpful, caring and inclusive?