Feature Channels: Winter Holidays

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Ryerson University expert offers tips on how to enjoy a more environmentally friendly holiday season.

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Carrying and Lifting Tips to Keep you Injury-free this Holiday Season

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A Saint Louis University family physician offers tips for avoiding H1N1 and other bugs this holiday season.

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Thanksgiving is when people get together around the dinner table and, unless you want your loved ones getting violently ill, it is a good time to think about food safety. Dr. Ben Chapman, food safety specialist and assistant professor of food science at NC State University, can offer suggestions to ensure your Thanksgiving meal is a safe one.

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Physics Professor, Dr. Edwin Meyer, believes in toys and games that help develop young minds.

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Retailers beware. Some tried-and-true discounting tactics for pepping up holiday season sales can be a boon for some products -- but a bust for others.

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UNC emergency physician Abhi Mehrotra, M.D., explains how you can avoid the most common injuries that land people in a hospital emergency department during the four-day Thanksgiving holiday period.

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Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety disorders and professor of psychiatry and psychology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and College of Arts & Sciences, offers five tips for coping with holiday-related stress.

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With remaining shopping days fleeting till the biggest retail event of the year, Ryerson's Ted Rogers School of Retail Management offers these holiday shopping tips...

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A University of Utah study suggests how eating a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and mashed potatoes makes consumers less likely to buy on impulse, which might affect their shopping on Black Friday.

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Linda Zellmer, government information and data services librarian at Western Illinois University Libraries has utilized GIS (geographic information systems) to prepare a website that links to PDF versions of the maps that show where the foods consumed at the traditional Thanksgiving meal -- such as turkey, cranberries, squash and green beans -- originate.

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The Loyola University Health System family is gathering together this Thanksgiving by collecting and assembling food baskets for families in Maywood, Broadview and Chicago.

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A story about remembering that holiday eating is about a meal or a party, not a whole season.

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With retail outlets leading the charge, the holiday season countdown is in full swing and Ryerson University is pleased to offer expert tips for making the most of the holidays.

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Loyola University Health System Home Care and Hospice Memory Tree honors loved ones.

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Though Thanksgiving isn't the only time children should be thankful, Kansas State University child development expert Chuck Smith says the annual holiday is the perfect time for families to stress the concept's importance.

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While the forecast for 2009 holiday retail sales is not as grim as a year ago, when seasonal activity fell by 3.8 percent from 2007, the Center for Education and Research in Retailing at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business still projects a 1 percent decline.

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It's just like something you'd see in an old movie - heading off into the hills with the kids to cut down a Christmas tree to bring home. But doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas say if you choose the wrong tree, you could make the holiday season miserable.

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The produce section may be a bit bare this time of year, but that doesn’t give anyone a free pass to skimp on fruits and vegetables.

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As the mercury dips, some people turn to alternative sources to ward off the cold. Too often, these practices lead to accidental deaths and injuries.