Wellness: On the Table

Wellness: On the Table

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...
Kids, Parents and a Toxic World

Kids, Parents and a Toxic World

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...
Wellness: Pleasure  Principle

Wellness: Pleasure Principle

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...

Wellness: The Tumor Tour

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,...

Wellness: Recipe for Disaster

Three might be a crowd, but take notice: chances are good that if you are standing with two other people, one of the three of you has diabetes or prediabetes. Fast-forward to the year 2020, and it’ll be two out of three with the condition. Take 79 million adults...