Well: Ask Well: Exercise After Knee Replacement

Q Can I hike and cross-country ski again after knee replacement surgery? What is the best exercise for someone with a partial knee replacement? Can I walk too much? I've had a TKR (total knee replacement), and it's been wonderful....

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Well: Vitamin E May Harm, or Help, Your Lungs

A form of vitamin E found in vegetable oils like corn and canola may worsen lung function, while another form typically found in olive oil may protect it, a new study suggests. The findings may help explain why studies of the health effects of the vitamin...

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Phys Ed: To Age Well, Walk

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Regular exercise, including walking, significantly reduces the chance that a frail older person will become physically disabled, according to one of the largest and longest-running studies...

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Well: Information Not on the Label

The Consumer Advice on money and health. If you want to know whether the bread you're about to buy was sweetened with corn syrup, you can check the label. The same is true if you're concerned about preservatives, caramel coloring or artificial...

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Bits Blog: My T-Shirt Told Me to Take a Chill Pill

My T-shirt tells me things. My heart rate, for instance: 62 beats a minute. And my breathing: 17 breaths a minute. Unless I drink too many cappuccinos or a deadline looms. Then my T-shirt tells me my that heart rate has jumped to the high 80s, my breathing...

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Bits Blog: My T-Shirt Told Me to Take a Chill Pill

My T-shirt tells me things. My heart rate, for instance: 62 beats a minute. And my breathing: 17 breaths a minute. Unless I drink too many cappuccinos or a deadline looms. Then my T-shirt tells me my that heart rate has jumped to the high 80s, my breathing...

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Well: Speaking Up About an Uncomfortable Condition

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Bowels, especially those that don't function properly, are not a popular topic of conversation. Most of the 1.4 million Americans with inflammatory bowel disease — Crohn's disease or ulcerative...

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Poison Pen: Silver Too Small to See, but Everywhere You Look

Poison Pen Deborah Blum writes about chemicals and the environment. Several years ago, a mosquito bite on Elizabeth Loboa's right leg became infected, turning into an oozing sore that refused to heal. Her doctor prescribed a stiff course of antibiotics....

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Well: 4 Days, 11 Pounds

This article appeared in the May 25, 2014 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Losing weight is simple: Ingest fewer calories than your body burns. But how best to do that is unclear. Most experts advise small reductions in calories or increases in...

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Well: Is Work Your Happy Place?

Do you feel more stressed out at work or at home? While work is widely viewed as the major source of stress for Americans, new research shows that people have significantly lower stress levels when they are at the office compared to their time at home....

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Well: Blueberries for All

Eat Well Recipe Finder Are you searching for a new vegetarian or vegan recipe? Try our new Eat Well Recipe Finder, which offers hundreds of healthful soups, sides, main courses, salads and desserts. I've been saving up blueberry recipes....

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Poison Pen: Silver Too Small to See, but Everywhere You Look

Poison Pen Deborah Blum writes about chemicals and the environment. Several years ago, a mosquito bite on Elizabeth Loboa's right leg became infected, turning into an oozing sore that refused to heal. Her doctor prescribed a stiff course of antibiotics....

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Well: Women With Diabetes Face Greater Heart Risks Than Men

Type 2 diabetes substantially increases the risk for heart disease, but a large review of studies has found that women with diabetes are at much higher risk than men. The meta-analysis, published in Diabetologia, included 64 studies with 858,507 subjects...

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Well: Is Work Your Happy Place?

Do you feel more stressed out at work or at home? While work is widely viewed as the major source of stress for Americans, new research shows that people have significantly lower stress levels when they are at the office compared to their time at home....

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Well: Ask Well: For Fitness, 2,000 Calories a Week?

A The idea that we should burn at least 2,000 calories a week during exercise seems to have originated in data gathered decades ago as part of the Harvard Alumni Study. That study followed male Harvard graduates for as long as 50 years, tracking...

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Well: 4 Days, 11 Pounds

Losing weight is simple: Ingest fewer calories than your body burns. But how best to do that is unclear. Most experts advise small reductions in calories or increases in exercise to remove weight slowly and sensibly, but many people quit that type of...

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Personal Health: This Summer, Safety First

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Heeding some basic safety tips this summer could help to keep you and your companions in the game and out of the emergency room. As an emergency room physician in Southern California, Dr. Brady...

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The New Old Age Blog: Do Not Resuscitate: What Young Doctors Would Choose

The researcher was presenting her findings to a room full of geriatricians, at the American Geriatrics Society annual scientific meeting last week in Orlando, Fla. So a slide revealing one particular statistic didn't cause an audible gasp or murmur....

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Well: Brain Changes in College Football Players Raise New Concerns

The brains of college football players are subtly different from the brains of other students, especially if the players have experienced a concussion in the past, according to an important new brain-scan study that, while restrained in its conclusions,...

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Well: Remembering, as an Extreme Sport

Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times SAN DIEGO – The last match of the tournament had all the elements of a classic showdown, pitting style versus stealth, quickness versus deliberation, and the world's foremost card virtuoso against its premier...

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