ShopSmart, a new publication from the publishers of Consumer Reports, warns of hidden chemicals in cosmetics.

Expectant mothers and those preparing food for them should be especially diligent when following safe food handling recommendations. Any illness a pregnant woman contracts can affect her unborn child, whose immune system is too immature to fight back.

BILOXI, Miss. The first few months after Hurricane Katrina, most Gulf Coast residents were in shock, say experts. Around the one-year mark, people here started really digesting what happened and what it means to their lives and depression started to sink in, experts say.