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....
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...
