At one Department of Motor Vehicles' office in the nation's capital, motorists can get a driver's license, temporary tags and something wholly unrelated to the road: a free HIV test.

In a city with one of the highest percentages of residents living with HIV or AIDS, health officials have spent the last year test-driving the HIV screening program. Since the program began last October, more than 5,000 people have been tested at the DMV site and gotten results while they waited.

 Here’s a short list of real-life parenting confessions and some expert advice about how to do the right thing, which rules are OK to bend, and which ones you should follow at all costs.

5 Reasons Men Shouldn't Blow Off Going to the Doctor

You probably saw the headline last week: “Half of Men Don’t Go to the Doctor.” The story was based on a survey that found 45 percent of men between ages 18 and 50 don’t have a primary care physician, and 40 percent of men in their 40s have never even had their cholesterol tested.
Other research over the past few years backs this up. In fact, an American Academy of Family Physicians survey found that more than half of men—55 percent—hadn’t seen their M.D. in the previous year. What gives?
Simple. "Men are babies," says T.E. Holt, M.D., Ph.D., a Men’s Health contributing editor and practicing physician with the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. “Men notoriously avoid doctors, especially men between the ages of 20 and 40. These are the same years in which men are twice as likely as women to die.”

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Creating an at-home gym can be affordable and easy—especially when you don't spend big bucks on bulky treadmills and weight machines! With just a few small pieces of equipment and your own body mass, you can get a toning, calorie-burning workout without leaving the house. WD spoke with personal trainers to get their must-have home exercise items, favorite fitness routines and useful tips. Find out how you can make your at-home sweat sessions a success.

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Slow eaters can consume 200 fewer calories a day, so sit down and make meals last.

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After supporting husband Michael Douglas through his battle with throat cancer, Catherine Zeta-Jones needed medical care for herself. After “the stress of the past year,” her representative said in a statement, the movie star “made the decision to check into a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her bipolar II disorder,” a condition similar to bipolar I disorder, characterized by mood swings from high to low.
Zeta-Jones has been hit with a series of devastating events: In 2010, her stepson, Cameron Douglas, was sentenced to five years in prison on drug charges, and four months later, her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Compounding the stress, Michael Douglas was also slapped with a lawsuit by former wife, Diandra, seeking half of the profits from his hit movie, “Wall Street: The Money Never Sleeps.”

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