Wellness: Holiday Blues

Wellness: Holiday Blues

Perhaps the most common feeling people have during the last couple of months of each year is one of pressure. The holiday season is laden with expectations—expectations we put on ourselves, our society and our families—and the compulsion to fulfil them...
Nuts About Nuts

Nuts About Nuts

An article recently published in the British Medical Journal has received much attention from blogs and mainstream media alike. Written by Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, the article, titled "This Allergies...
A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

To say there's a big debate over autism is an understatement. More than 5,000 families have filed court claims blaming vaccine makers for their children's autism symptoms, including serious language delays, poor social skills and repetitive movements. Yet the...
Wellness: Java for Life?

Wellness: Java for Life?

Coffee may make you a happier person, a nicer and more open-minded person, a more intelligent, alert and beautiful person who lives a healthier life—and lives it longer. We coffee drinkers just knew it all along, but medical science in recent years has been...
Undoing the Damage

Undoing the Damage

Leslie Tarr Laurie was in a celebratory mood last week.Laurie—president and CEO of Tapestry Health—was rejoicing over a recent federal court decision that reversed, in part, one of the many blows to reproductive rights delivered by the Bush administration....