One of my underarms gets little red zits after I shave. It’s gross! How can I avoid this? Before 1915, this problem didn’t exist. That was the year sleeveless dresses became popular, and Harper’s Bazaar magazine suggested fashionable women should...
Sounds like a sty – a red, painful lump, caused by a bacterial infection, at the root of your eyelash. It fills with puss and swells, but, fortunately, Dr. Maureen O’Neil of Santa Monica, Calif., says sties usually disappear in...
I get stress headaches at school almost every day. The nurse won’t give me aspirin or anything. The headaches go away when I leave school, though. You’re one of the 10 percent of kids who get headaches. Two percent are just...
1. Be Reasonable Fab plans are great, but are your goals realistic? You don't have to be extraordinary to be successful. No one is a perfect student, musician, friend, artist, dancer, and athlete. Limit after-school stuff to a few activities...
Pubic hair is not meant to match, explains Dr. Larrian Gillespie, a Los Angeles urogynecologist. It has to do with dominant genes. Only girls with carrot-top red have red down-there hair. Blondie-blonds, the ones with hair so light it’s...
I see ads in magazines for pills and creams that make your breasts grow two cup sizes. Do they work? Ads for breast enhancement pills and creams have popped up all over in mags, websites and TV, promising big...
When I run, I get a cramp in my bladder area. I exercise daily, so I’m in shape. What gives? According to Diane A. Smith, a nurse in Bryn Mawr, Pa., you could have weak pelvic floor muscles supporting the...
Is it normal to have hair between your breasts and around your belly button? If you’re sprouting hair “down there,” some might also crop up around your belly button, upper lip and, yes, breasts. “Around 11 or 12, certain hair...
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