Resolutions for a healthy New Year follow a pretty standard script. And they almost always end up on the cutting-room floor by February.
On Your Health
What medical research has to say about Santa
The growing body of scholarly research about the red-coated reindeer owner goes a long way to answering one of history’s most enduring questions.
Is 50 the new 30?
Someone special to one of us just marked a big, round-numbered birthday.
A year older, a year better
This time last year, things looked pretty grim for my parents.
Empowering patients – and avoiding ‘medical gaslighting’
Have you ever walked out of an appointment with a health care provider and thought, “I’m not sure the doctor heard me”? Or, “What, exactly, was I just told?” Communication between physicians and patients has always been difficult. On one side, you have a professional trained in a complicated and technical field that’s knee-deep in […]
For Alzheimer’s, drugs may not be the answer
The search for a pharmaceutical “magic bullet” is something that’s hard-wired both into our culture and our science.