Hospitals around the country are loaded with the latest medical equipment and technology to help you get well. Unfortunately, they’re also loaded with nasty bugs—and not the kind that live in your yard or garden, either. I’m talking about bacteria and viruses that can make you deathly ill.

Follow this advice to keep your mind sharp as you age… Many scientists believe that the cognitive declines we see with aging come about, in part, because people don’t do much new learning once they establish routines in a particular job or lifestyle, whether that’s running a household or managing a company. Though the expertise you gain over a lifetime is enormously satisfying—and obviously useful—you’ll need to make sure that you don’t rest too comfortably on existing talents.

Could food allergies be causing your child’s ear infections, headaches, itchy skin, or crankiness? Even when your kid is too young to tell you how he feels or too used to her symptoms to identify them (when kids hurt all the time, they don’t know they hurt), you can often read your child’s condition in his or her skin. In your child’s case, that “toxic invader” might be an apparently harmless food, to which your kid is either allergic or “sensitive.”