Wellness
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...
The Burden of Caring
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....
Wellness: Gut Check
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...Wellness: Cord Blood Banking
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,...
Paradise Regained
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...
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...
Wellness: Fading Scars
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...Smart Apps vs. Obamacare
Health care costs in the U.S. have been rising so steadily for so long that containment barely seems possible. Even optimists don’t dream of cutting the price tag. As its official name—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—suggests,...E-Edition
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