by Joseph Hooper | Apr 2, 2014 | Wellness
It happens with some regularity. A young, fit guy will overdo the weekend routine and come to Manhattan alternative doctor Frank Lipman for a course of acupuncture to relieve the ache of a sore back or a strained shoulder. He’ll have his problem...
by Sandra Gordon | Apr 30, 2014 | Wellness
Five days before her first birthday, Peyton Connelly had been crankier and sleepier than usual. When her mom, Shelly, went to retrieve her from her crib after a lengthy nap, “Peyton stood up and fell over,” Shelly says. Alarmed, Shelly and her husband,...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 4, 2014 | Wellness
In Chembe Village, in the southeast African country of Malawi, the population is 90 percent unemployed, 90 percent illiterate, 50 percent malnourished “and 100 percent beyond the American middle class mind’s concept of poverty,” as Suzanne Strempek...
by Judy Foreman | Aug 6, 2014 | Wellness
It was July 1, 2008. I was standing outside the Outpatient Center at Chestnut Hill/New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, better known as “boot camp,” and I was petrified. I had been in excruciating neck pain for more than six months. The burning, searing...
by Amanda Drane | Oct 1, 2014 | Wellness
One of my earliest memories is of visiting my Aunt Karen in the hospital shortly before we lost her to breast cancer. I was too little to remember much, but I remember thinking that in her mid-30s my aunt was too young to die—dying was for old people. Earlier...
