Breathing Easier: What’s New in Seasonal Allergy Care

Seasonal allergies affect about one in four American adults, and if you’re among them, you know the routine: weeks of sneezing, congestion, itchy eyes, sinus pressure, and disrupted sleep. The immune system mistakes harmless pollen for a threat, triggering a cascade of histamine and inflammatory chemicals that can feel relentless. The good news is that allergy science keeps advancing. The … Read More

The Food Safety Edge: Why It Matters More After 40

For many, foodborne illness is something we associate with a bad restaurant meal or a short-lived stomach bug. But as we move through middle age and beyond, food safety becomes less about inconvenience and more about protecting our health and resilience. With that in mind, we share how adopting a few consistent habits can help significantly lower your risk. Why … Read More

A New, Hopeful Era for Brain Health

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From prevention to precision care, a new wave of research is reshaping what it means to protect your memory and thinking For generations, a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease signaled a one-way journey of irreversible decline that slowly eroded memory, independence, and identity. Over the last decade, though, scientific understanding has expanded dramatically. Today, a combination of lifestyle interventions, … Read More

Spirituality in Medicine: Rediscovering an Ancient Dimension of Healing

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Modern medicine excels at treating disease, yet true healing can go beyond correcting an abnormal lab value or repairing an injury. It involves restoring wholeness of body, mind, and spirit. Increasingly, we recognize that spirituality is a powerful dimension of health, shaping how people find hope, strength, and meaning in moments of challenge. What Is Spirituality? Spirituality is broader than … Read More

Keeping Up with Apps

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Exercise coach, meditation guru, calorie counter, hearing amplifier, mood lifter, EKG monitor, always-available walking buddy…with 350,000+ apps flooding the marketplace there’s quite literally a virtual assist for every goal you can envision. Health apps offer software to diagnose, track or treat disease, such as continuous glucose monitors which can be worn on the arm to track blood sugar levels, or … Read More

The Happiness Study: Lessons from Lives Well-Lived

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“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau What is the key to happiness…wealth, fame, professional achievements, influence? According to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the world’s longest running … Read More

New Advisory Brings the Alcohol-Cancer Connection to the Forefront

Alcohol and Cancer Risk Our year was off to a sobering start with the advisory on alcohol and cancer risk issued by the Surgeon General in January. The key points, which were concerning, and for at least half of Americans, seemingly unknown until now, included: A direct link was reported between alcohol consumption and higher risk for cancers of the … Read More

Heart Health Update: All Roads Lead to Prevention

Whether you’re a healthy 40-something with a family history of premature cardiac events, a 50-year-old mother who experienced a complicated pregnancy decades ago, or a 65-year-old man whose statin treatment has failed to lower high cholesterol levels, take heart in the growing arsenal of tests and therapies aimed at preventing disease. A long-time advocate for proactive, preventive cardiac care, Dara … Read More

Truth or Dare: Staying Informed in an Age of Misinformation

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on.” * It’s not easy to cut through the clutter in our world of often viral misinformation and find irrefutable facts. Healthcare is especially prone to misinterpretation because the scientific method—developing, testing, experimenting and refining hypotheses—can seem imperfect but is fundamental to reaching a … Read More

The New Holiday Plate: Healthy, Wholesome, and Welcoming For All

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As dietary restrictions become more commonplace (an estimated 10% of Americans have a food allergy, another 5% are vegetarian or vegan), serving a holiday meal that satisfies a diversity of diners may seem intimidating. Below we show some easy ways to deconstruct or reconstruct your dishes to give everyone – whether they’re heart-healthy, diabetic, gluten-sensitive, lactose-intolerant, nut-free or plant-forward – … Read More