Well: Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. If you are unable to think of a catchy, creative way to present sales data or begin a newspaper column, take a walk. A brief stroll, even around your office, can significantly increase creativity,...

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Well: Data Murky on Fertility Rates

Here's the question on the minds of people who spend tens of thousands of dollars on fertility treatments: What are my chances of having a healthy baby? As it turns out, it's not always easy to tell. Since 1992, clinics have been required to report...

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Well: Reading Pain in a Human Face

How well can computers interact with humans? Certainly computers play a mean game of chess, which requires strategy and logic, and "Jeopardy!," in which they must process language to understand the clues read by Alex Trebek (and buzz in with the correct...

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Well: A Stroke You Must Have

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. My father-in-law had been fishing from rowboats without incident since early childhood. But in August 1970, at age 66, alone on a Minnesota lake, he apparently fell out of the boat and drowned....

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Well: Ask Well: Do Foam Rollers Aid Workouts?

Q At the gym, instead of traditional "stretching" I see tons of people rolling around on foam rollers. The foam rollers are in high demand and constantly in use. I now have one at home that I roll around on too. What does the research say about...

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Well: Why Chocolate Is Good for Us

This column appeared in the April 27, 2014 issue of The New York Times Magazine.In recent years, large-scale epidemiological studies have found that people whose diets include dark chocolate have a lower risk of heart disease than those whose diets do...

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DealBook: Seeking the Right Chemistry, Drug Makers Hunt for Mergers

Updated, 9:12 p.m. | The pharmaceutical industry is regaining its swagger, as companies turn to big and sometimes daring deals to expand and reshape their operations. On Tuesday alone, pharmaceutical companies announced $74 billion worth of potential...

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Well: The Limits of ‘No Pain, No Gain’

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Exercise makes us tired. A new study helps to elucidate why and also suggests that while it is possible to push through fatigue to reach new levels of physical performance, it is not necessarily...

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The Well Column: The Lure of Forbidden Food

The Well Column Tara Parker-Pope on living well. How hard will your child work for food? In an experiment, researchers at Pennsylvania State University gave preschool children the opportunity to "work" for a food reward. All the child had to...

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The New Old Age Blog: For Stone Phillips, a Focus on the Home Front

Originally, Stone Phillips told me, he intended to shoot a kind of home movie. His parents, after deliberating with their three children for a year, were about to leave their independent living apartment in St. Louis for a similar one in North Carolina,...

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Well: Lifesaving Procedure With an Image Problem

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Sandra Haber, a 65-year-old psychologist in Brooklyn, wants everyone to know how easy it is now to donate bone marrow. Hers was failing. She was anemic, bled easily and had little resistance to...

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The New Old Age: Are Blood Pressure Drugs Worth the Falls?

For older Americans, high blood pressure is a fact of life. By one common estimate, more than 70 percent of those over age 70 contend with it. That means medication to lower blood pressure has become a fact of life, too. Diuretics, beta blockers, calcium...

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Well: Ask Well: Are Exercise Cool Downs Necessary?

A A lot of cardiovascular exercise routines call for a cool-down at the end. Is this necessary? "For a long time, the theory was that cooling down by continuing to exercise at a lower intensity would help the legs flush out lactate" and avoid...

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Well: The Antidepressant Generation

"I think our experiment failed," the young graduate student told me, referring to our attempt to take her off the antidepressant she'd been on for seven years. She was back in my campus office after a difficult summer break, and as she talked about feeling...

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Well: Younger Skin Through Exercise

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Exercise not only appears to keep skin younger, it may also even reverse skin aging in people who start exercising late in life, according to surprising new research. As many of us know from...

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Well: A Number That May Not Add Up

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. In July 1998, the National Institutes of Health changed what it means to be overweight, defining it as a body mass index of 25 or greater for adults. The cutoff had been 28 for men and 27 for women,...

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The New Old Age: Wounded by the Language of War

When did the language we use to talk about death start to resemble a Pentagon briefing, full of military references and combat analogies? Maybe it dates to 1971, when Richard Nixon declared a "war on cancer." Or much earlier, in the late 1800s, when...

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Well: Great Grain Salads

For the next few weeks you'll be hearing a lot from me about a conference I attended in March at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley. Called "Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives," this conference, presented by the Culinary Institute of America,...

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The New Old Age: Wounded by the Language of War

When did the language we use to talk about death start to resemble a Pentagon briefing, full of military references and combat analogies? Maybe it dates to 1971, when Richard Nixon declared a "war on cancer." Or much earlier, in the late 1800s, when...

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