Well: Shopping Cart Injuries Remain Common

Shopping carts might not seem like a particularly dangerous place for a child, but from 1990 to 2011, an average of 66 children a day wound up in emergency rooms after injuries sustained in and near them. Researchers studied children under 15 and made...

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Well: Ask Well: Parabens in Our Lotions and Shampoos

A Parabens are old-time chemical preservatives – they were first introduced in the 1950s after bacteria-contaminated facial lotions caused a small outbreak of blindness. Today, they are used in a wide range of personal care items – from cosmetics...

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Well: Exercise to Age Well, Whatever Your Age

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Offering hope and encouragement to the many adults who have somehow neglected to exercise for the past few decades, a new study suggests that becoming physically active in middle age, even...

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Well: Me Versus the Scale

The scale and I have reached détente. That is: I leave it alone, and it affords me the same courtesy. I rarely step on it, and we're both better off. I have earned the right of refusal. As someone who weighed herself almost daily between the ages of...

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Personal Health: Helping Smokers Quit, or Not Start in the First Place

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. "Even 50 years after the first surgeon general's report on smoking and health, we're still finding out new ways that tobacco kills and maims people," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers...

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The New Old Age: When They Don’t Know They Are Ill

Soon after his wife was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, Bill Floyd consulted a neurologist who had been a member of his church. People with this illness don't know they have it, the doctor warned. They don't understand that anything is wrong....

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The New Old Age: A Risk in Caring for Abusive Parents

Who could condemn someone for staying far away from a parent, even an ailing or dying parent, who mistreated him or her as a child? The last time I wrote about this emotional subject, most readers understood that response. Many who had suffered through...

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Well: Not Your Grandmother’s Gratin

In my kitchen, leftovers often become the inspiration for a week of Recipes for Health. This happened last week. If you had opened my refrigerator on Sunday you would have found a selection of roasted vegetables, which I had prepared over the weekend...

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Voices: Treat Reckless Driving Like Drunk Driving

On a rainy, foggy night earlier this month, a New York City taxi driver making a left turn at a light apparently did not see my 9-year-old nephew and his 6-foot-3 father crossing the street at a crosswalk, beckoned by a lighted "walk" sign. Whether because...

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The New Old Age: The Company I Keep

The very title of this blog suggests the continual shifting of ground underneath all of us of a certain age. Whatever we thought old age meant yesterday, it means something different today. Sixty when the blog began, I'm now 66. That's not a complaint...

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Well: Living With Cancer: Life of the Party

Living With Cancer Susan Gubar writes about life with ovarian cancer. The prospect of a party frightened me — probably because the enforced isolation of cancer treatments has rendered me hypersensitive. It was raining outside and festivities...

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Well: Ask Well: Stairs and Knee Pain

A If it's any comfort, you have company. Most people with knee arthritis — meaning some degeneration of the cushioning cartilage in the joint — experience pain when they go down stairs, even if their arthritis is otherwise mild, said Dr. Kevin...

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18 and Under: A Taste of My Own Manners

18 and Under Dr. Perri Klass on family health. When I started my internship, in 1986, I was given a beeper, which was handed over with a certain sense of ceremony and a certain yoke of obligation. Before cellphones were omnipresent, the beeper...

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The New Old Age: When They Don’t Know They Are Ill

Soon after his wife was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, Bill Floyd consulted a neurologist who had been a member of his church. People with this illness don't know they have it, the doctor warned. They don't understand that anything is wrong....

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Well: Coming a Long Way on Smoking, With a Way to Go

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Fifty years ago this month, Dr. Luther L. Terry issued the first "Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health," which cited smoking as a cause of lung cancer in men. The hefty report landed...

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Well: Orange Is the New Green

Recipes for Health Martha Rose Shulman on healthful cooking. Orange is the color of the week in my kitchen, as it has been since the fall and will be throughout the winter at my farmers' market. I'm making oven fries with sweet potatoes, roasting...

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Think Like a Doctor: A School of Red Herrings

Think Like a Doctor Solve a medical mystery with Dr. Lisa Sanders. The Challenge: Can you figure out what is wrong with a 29-year-old former volleyball player who develops some odd aches and pains and a swollen foot? Every month the Diagnosis...

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Well: Think Like a Doctor: Red Herrings Solved!

Think Like a Doctor Solve a medical mystery with Dr. Lisa Sanders. On Thursday we challenged Well readers to take the case of a 29-year-old woman with an injured groin, a swollen foot and other abnormalities. Many of you found it as challenging...

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Well: Landscapes Tainted by Asbestos

Poison Pen Deborah Blum writes about chemicals and the environment. For the past few years, Brenda Buck has been sampling the dust blowing across southern Nevada. Until recently, she focused on the risks of airborne elements such as arsenic....

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Well: What Ultra-Marathons Do to Our Bodies

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Ultra-runners are different from you and me in one simple way: They run more. But a new study of these racers, who compete in events longer than marathons, joins other recent science in...

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