Category: health-letter

In February 2015, Harvard researchers headlined a conference about breakthrough technology that can edit genes in living cells.

Why do people over 60 lose height? I?ve lost a few inches over the years. Can this be prevented?

Nonadherence to medication regimens is a major public health problem. Strategies to solve it include finding more affordable medications and implementing ways to remember to take them.

It appears that men and women are much more likely to make positive changes in health behavior if their partners also change their health behavior during the same period.

Surgery is not always necessary to relieve knee pain. The first line of treatment is three months of physical therapy.

For people with high blood pressure, beta blockers are no longer a first line of defense.

Peripheral artery disease is marked by leg pain or fatigue that develops after a person has been walking or climbing stairs for a few minutes. Treatment involves walking to increase blood flow to the smaller arteries in the legs.

Feeling younger psychologically might lead to better attitudes about health as well as better health habits.

My wife says I should slow down and retire, but I hope I can work forever. What?s your take?

It appears that people who regularly eat whole grains have a lower overall death rate and a lower death rate from heart disease than people who don’t eat whole grains regularly.