At the Lown Institute annual conference, Vinay Prasad, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the...
Your Health & Wellness
Should you be taking vitamins?
Liz Szabo reports for the New York Times that older Americans are popping supplements like candy...
Hundreds of patient advocacy groups are Pharma shills
About a year ago, a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the overwhelming...
Aerobic exercise may be best medicine for your brain and body
Business Insider reports on more than a dozen recent studies that demonstrate the value of aerobic...
Losing sleep over insomnia medications? How to get healthier...
Insomnia is common, and becomes more so with age. Sleepless nights can come with a host of problems...
Reduce your risk of heart disease. Exercise!
To reduce your risk of coronary heart disease, just as with reducing your risk of stroke, the best...
Question your doctor before getting arthroscopic knee surgery
If your doctor recommends you get arthroscopic knee surgery for a meniscal tear, do some homework...
No evidence oral beauty supplements improve skin
A meta-study of research on oral beauty supplements by nutrition scientists at the British...
What’s a psychiatric advance directive?
We all need advance directives—living wills and health care proxies that enable us to identify a...
To curb obesity, Chile makes it harder to buy junk...
To curb obesity, in 2016 Chile made it harder to buy junk food—psychologically, financially and...