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Travel and Health Archive

En Español (Spanish Version)
Adventures
Family Travel
On the Road
Travel Ills
Trip Planning

Adventures

  • Eating healthy while on a cruise
  • Elder hostels: the fun never stops
  • Getting ready for active travel
  • Going on a monastic retreat
  • Planning a safe camping trip
  • Traveling “green”: the wide world of ecotourism
  • Traveling for treatment: weighing the risks of medical tourism
  • Volunteer vacations: the health benefits of helping others
  • Wild safari

Family Travel

  • Breastfeeding while traveling: what you need to know
  • Business travel: leaving the little ones behind
  • Don't drowse and drive
  • Eating well when flying
  • On the road again… but with healthful snacks
  • Pregnant? You can still travel
  • Surviving family vacations
  • Tips on child car seat safety
  • Traveling in turbulent times
  • True or false: flying during pregnancy is unsafe for the fetus

On the Road

  • Driver beware: certain medications can impair your ability behind the wheel
  • Keeping your kids safe in the car
  • On the road again… but with healthful snacks
  • Prepare for winter driving
  • Tips on child car seat safety

Travel Ills

  • Beware when buying medications abroad
  • Cruise control: reducing your risk for the norwalk virus
  • Health on the high seas: medical care on cruise ships
  • How to keep motion sickness at bay
  • International travel alert: tuberculosis
  • Risk of bird flu for international travelers
  • Safe travels: protect against mosquito-borne diseases
  • Staying healthy while flying
  • Taking care of your diabetes when you are away from home
  • Traveler’s diarrhea: don’t let it ruin your vacation
  • Traveler's thrombosis: when sitting still can be deadly
  • Water, water, everywhere, but is it safe to swim?

Trip Planning

  • Beware when buying medications abroad
  • Eating healthy while on a cruise
  • Eating well when flying
  • Fighting bugs naturally
  • Healthy traveling with allergies
  • Hepatitis A prevention for travelers
  • Hope and help for fearful flyers
  • How to prevent and ease the aches and pains of traveling
  • Planning a safe camping trip
  • Preparing for healthy travel using the web
  • Preventing jet lag
  • Tips for traveling with medications
  • Travel insurance: protection for that dream vacation
  • Traveler's thrombosis: when sitting still can be deadly
  • Traveling for treatment: weighing the risks of medical tourism
  • Traveling with cancer
  • Traveling with diabetes
  • Traveling with heart disease
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