Feature Channels: Fall

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Tips for an allergy and asthma safe Halloween.

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K-State's Susan Nelson, assistant professor of clinical services, says chocolate consumption by many pets, including dogs, cats, ferrets, birds and rats, can be extremely hazardous.

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According to Kansas State University food experts, the shelf life of candy varies depending on the type of candy, packaging and storage conditions.

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Texas Tech faculty know blood suckers, brain eaters and the horrors of Halloween buyer's remorse.

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David Wolfe, professor of plant and soil ecology at Cornell University, comments on the factors determining the brilliance of the 2010 fall color display in the Northeast.

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Tips for hay fever sufferers to find relief this fall.

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As fun as it is to obsess over and be scared by fictional vampires, the real things are much more fascinating. Here is some blood-curdling information from National Wildlife Federation on living, breathing vampires that might just be stalking you.

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The season is right for reading tales of mystery and terror. A Wake Forest University professor suggests several scary books, and considers why we enjoy being scared.

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Why is Halloween on the rise as a popular celebration? Many young adults just want an excuse to dress up and party. But there is more to it than that, says a U. of Denver communication professor. There is also greater interest in the paranormal and the supernatural.

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Loyola Center for Fitness Offers tips for a healthy and happy Halloween.

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This Halloween, the eerie theme of the Addams Family will ring out over a darkened Wellesley College campus. This and other terrifying tunes will emanate from Galen Stone Tower, which stands 182 feet tall, and the students who play the carillon within. The guild is opening the tower to the brave-hearted who can scale the spine-chilling stairs to the carillon, encountering skeletons, spiders, ghosts and cobwebs on the climb, during a Halloween Haunted Tower, Saturday, Oct. 31, from 5-7 pm.

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Monthly health column written by Peter S. Lund, MD, covers wilderness health issues for the fall season.

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These professors just might know who – or what – goes bump in the night.

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To avoid becoming a bat’s tasty treat, a species of tiger moth plays a trick with sound. The moth can make up to 450 ultrasonic clicks in a tenth of a second to jam the hungry bat’s sonar and escape death.

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Adults are nervous enough about H1N1. Imagine how our children might fear "Slime Flu." Here's a different kind of anti-viral: common sense advice to calm our children and calm ourselves.

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From a working member of the H1N1 influenza working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to several experts in antiviral treatment for influenza, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has noted faculty available for swine-flu coverage.

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Do those fall colors seem to show up later and later? Scientists say we can blame the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

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Wash your hands! Sounds simple, but that advice can make all the difference when it comes to avoiding the flu and colds...if you teach children the right way when they are young. LifeBridge Health has produced a public service announcement for children of all ages about hand washing.

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Timely raking and ladder safety tips from AAOS.

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Schools as well as the flu season have officially started, so this is a great time to follow some simple health tips that will help provide protection from not only H1N1 (swine flu), but seasonal influenza as well.