A six-month trip to breast-cancer treatment country has left me with jet lag. I’m sleepy most of the time. I’m not endangering anyone on the road, but I am annoying a few drivers. I apologize to those who have had to honk their horns to rouse me. I lik... »
You can win the USA Memory Championship twice in a row. You can memorize 303 random numbers in five minutes, then recall 99 names and faces, a 50-line unpublished poem and 200 random words, all while the clock ticks and an enthralled audience watches.B... »
For anyone missing the spirited Republican primary debates, I have a alternative: the raw milk debate. Sponsored by the Harvard Food Law Society, this recent dialogue brought raw milk advocates Sally Fallon Morrell of the Weston Price Foundation and au... »
Marsha Matson works hard to strengthen her bones, exercising nearly every day and taking her vitamins and medicine. Diagnosed a decade ago with low bone mass, she learned the hard way how important it is to improve her bone health when she broke her ba... »
On a recent visit to his ophthalmologist, my husband was warned that he might be developing age-related macular degeneration (ARMD). Needless to say, we were concerned.ARMD is the leading cause of vision loss in people over 60 in the United States toda... »
Gene Grossman knew exercise was important, but it wasn’t until he had a triple bypass surgery and an aortic valve replacement, that he realized he needed to change his exercise and eating habits. “You’re always conscious of that [exercise] but you don’... »
Murray Ginsburg started running for his high-school team and has not stopped exercising daily in more than 70 years. When he turned 75 and his knees began to give him problems, he stopped jogging and switched to 13-mile-long walks in the surrounding ar... »
We all know that what we eat affects our bodies. Food also matters for our brains.Studies show that certain diets are associated with a reduced risk of memory loss from mild cognitive impairments (MCI).“People truly underestimate how much the food you ... »
Nora Mesa can easily recount the life she established in South Florida after leaving Cuba in 1968. She found work as a medical assistant and at a clothing boutique before landing a job in the office of a shipping company, making $50 a week.“My English ... »
Want to stay cognizant? Drive safely? Remember things? It’s all about brain health. “Everybody ages, but it’s about healthy aging,’’ says Dr. Claes Wahlestedt, professor of psychiatry and associate dean for therapeutic innovation at the University of M... »
Walking down the stairs. Sleeping on her stomach. Shopping for groceries. These are some of the daily tasks Lisa Molina Gonzalez, 41, could not do for more than five years because of two herniated discs. The painful throbbing traveled down her left leg... »
Twenty years ago, Cookie Wright would walk a lot, in the neighborhood and from her home in Palmetto Bay to the Chapman field to watch her son’s baseball game.The first signs of rheumatoid arthritis hit her while walking that stretch.“All of a sudden my... »
Dr. Barbara Krantz has a message for those who care for an elderly mom, dad, grandparent or friend: Falls, depression and insomnia should not be so easily dismissed as signs of getting older.“Those are things that can be attributed to the physiological... »
When a cancer diagnosis hits home, the loaded subject of religion is unavoidable. A breast cancer patient named Linda was angry about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s since-reversed decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood in order to maintain... »
In 2007, two highly trained pediatric specialists left Jackson Memorial Hospital, lured to a children’s hospital in Texas that doubled their salaries.The departures of the two doctors — University of Miami faculty members in the field of pediatric card... »
