by Maureen Turner | Sep 1, 2011 | Wellness
For years, the farmers’ market in Springfield’s Forest Park neighborhood accepted paper food stamps from shoppers—an option that ensured that low-income families had easy access to fresh, local produce. But that changed about a dozen years ago, said...
by Beth Levine | Oct 6, 2011 | Wellness
Lloyd Emanuel, a 62-year-old tennis pro from Rye, N.Y., had been playing competitively for 50 years—and hoped to keep going. Six years ago, however, the pain started in his right knee. The diagnosis: osteoarthritis, the breakdown of joint cartilage. An...
by Maureen Turner | Nov 3, 2011 | Wellness
Ann, my boss at my first job after college, happened to have grown up in the same New York suburb where I grew up, more than 120 miles from the city where we now lived. We both got a kick out of comparing our experiences growing up in our common hometown, a generation...
by Amy Littlefield | Dec 1, 2011 | Wellness
Participants in Kate Morrow’s recent study may not have felt as if they were fighting the global HIV epidemic. In fact, what they were literally feeling were gels of various consistencies inside their vaginas. The women in Morrow’s Project LINK answered...
by Amy Paturel | Jan 5, 2012 | Wellness
For years, I unknowingly toted around a three-pound tumor, and no one gave me a second glance. But the moment surgeons removed the mass from my body, it began a collegiate tour that would put any high school valedictorian to shame. As the focus of high-level research,...
