by Jennifer Paul | Oct 1, 2013 | Wellness
One of the oldest, most common miseries known to man goes by a variety of names. What the medical community recognizes as “veisalgi” (from the Greek root algos, for “pain and grief”), Germans refer to as “katzenjammer”...
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 5, 2013 | Wellness
The Purple Pill Called Nexium: you can’t escape its ubiquitous commercials. The highly touted antidote to heartburn is one of the most widely used medicines in America; in 2012 it brought its maker, Astra Zeneca, nearly $6 billion. That’s because acid...
by Suzanne Harrington | Dec 31, 2013 | Wellness
Food is a minefield. Socially, culturally, economically, we have made what we eat a lot more than just dinner. It is taste, status, power, profit, religion, ideology, politics. What we may have forgotten—and the evidence is all around us within our own bodies,...
by Ronald Baily | Feb 10, 2014 | Wellness
A significant proportion of Americans believe it is perfectly all right to put other people at risk for the costs and misery of preventable infectious illnesses. These people are your friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens who refuse to have themselves or their...
by Maureen Turner | Mar 4, 2014 | Wellness
In her new book, The Caregivers: A Support Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love (Scribner), Northampton journalist Nell Lake chronicles the two years she spent observing the members of a caregivers’ support group at Cooley Dickinson Hospital....
