no body's perfect

Most people are in awe of physicians.   Medical doctors are smart, well educated, and devote their working lives to helping others.   The le...

My paternal grandmother would sometimes get abdominal pain severe enough to send her to the emergency room.   She had a number of explorato...

In today’s paper I read about the Melnick sisters, whose suit against Eli Lilly and Company went to trial this week.   The sisters charge t...

Happy New Year!   Another year, another study apparently proving that being a little overweight is fine and may even reduce your risk of dy...

The word is out.  I first learned about it in a “Sound Medicine” interview last July with science writer Sharon Begley, a follow-up to an a...

1. Drink juice; commercial tomato juice is an especially good choice.  A large study has shown that people who drink juice several times a w...

Putting on extra pounds may damage your mental, as well as your physical, fitness but overweight middle-aged people who follow a program of...