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Stanford researchers may have discovered a drug for a rare and often untreatable disease that leaves children with massive, and sometimes deadly, growths on their faces, necks and other parts of their bodies.

Here's the twist: The drug is Viagra.

Patient-pleasing doctors may not be so good for your health.

That's the conclusion of researchers at the University of California, Davis, after reviewing satisfaction ratings and other data on more than 50,000 patients nationwide.

Dr. Greg Plotnikoff has spent more than a decade evangelizing about the health benefits of vitamin D to his medical colleagues across the globe.

Now the Minneapolis-based internist and pediatrician is turning to corporate America, hoping his message will have new resonance amid soaring medical costs and a fragile economic recovery.

An unusual couple stood in line in front of me waiting to board the flight from Washington, D.C., to the West Coast: a middle-aged woman and a golden retriever. Surprised to see a dog of this size planning to travel in the airplane cabin, I struck up a conversation with the woman.

"I hope he won't be disappointed in what they pass off for food these days."

Do you have a sincere desire to become more fit and healthy, but the idea of exercising outdoors or in a public gym brings you to a dead stop?

Even for people who don't have cold-induced urticaria, winter can be hard on the skin, says state-licensed clinical esthetician Jennifer Derry, who works in the Pittsburgh office of plastic surgeon Leo McCafferty.

Pam Pezzin was walking in the woods on a winter day back around 1989 when she broke out in hives all over her body, including her stomach, arms, legs and face.

Over the years, she continued to break out in bumps when it was cold outside, and she suffered from symptoms of asthma, too.

I recently drove a family to the airport for a long-haul flight, and the child had been running a fever fewer than 24 hours earlier. Fearing that more sick germs might be jetting across the country, I felt a bit like an accomplice to a crime.

Q: I'm going on a cruise with my best friend. We booked an inside cabin months ago because it was the cheapest option. I've done a decent amount of research since then (yes, I know, I should have done it earlier), and I am sure I'd hate being in a windowless room for a week. I'd get claustrophobic.

Culinary historian Michael Twitty's love affair with his ancestors' cuisine sprouted early.