Well: 50 Ways to Love Your Quinoa

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. You'd think I would eventually run out...

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Well: Ask Well: Fatty Liver and Diet

Recently, in "Threat Grows From Liver Illness Tied to Obesity," Anahad O'Connor described the growing epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver, an illness that affects at least one in five Americans, including many teenagers. Here he responds to reader questions...

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Well: Longer Heart Monitoring Backed for Stroke Patients

More than a half-million Americans every year have an ischemic stroke, the most common form, which disrupts blood flow to the brain. And at least a quarter of these cases have no apparent underlying cause. Now two major studies suggest that many of...

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Well: Putting Us All at Risk for Measles

Doctor and Patient Dr. Pauline Chen on medical care. One of my 11-year-old twin daughters recently came home from school distraught. When I asked why, she lifted her foot. There was dog poop on her sneakers. She watched as I flicked away the...

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Well: Aspirin May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk

A new study adds to the evidence that low-dose aspirin, known to reduce the risk for heart disease, may also reduce the risk for pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer has a 93 percent fatality rate, and the National Cancer Institute estimates there will...

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Well: Cleaner Air Linked to Fewer Deaths

Air quality has improved significantly in the past 20 years because of federal and state laws and regulations, and researchers in North Carolina have found an associated decline in rates of death from respiratory disease. A study, published Monday in...

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Well: Vitamin D Screening Not Backed by Expert Panel

A government health panel on Monday chose not to endorse widespread screening for vitamin D levels in healthy adults, despite research suggesting that a majority of Americans may be deficient in the vitamin. The United States Preventive Services Task...

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Well: For Fitness, Push Yourself

Intense exercise changes the body and muscles at a molecular level in ways that milder physical activity doesn't match, according to an enlightening new study. Though the study was conducted in mice, the findings add to growing scientific evidence that...

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Well: Too Hot to Handle

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Hot weather kills more Americans than all other natural disasters combined, and the casualties continue to climb despite decades of warnings about how to recognize the signs of heat stress and take...

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The New Old Age Blog: ‘You Can Do It, Shirley’

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Martin Luther King Addo, a 44-year-old bodybuilder who was twice crowned Mr. Ghana, opened a storefront gym in a N.O.R.C. — a naturally occurring retirement community — in Lower Manhattan. His clients, many of...

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Well: Broccoli, Stems and 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. Once upon a time, when you bought broccoli...

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Well: A Long Way From Wonder Bread

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Pam Ross showed up at Ponsford's Place Bakery & Innovation Center at 5 p.m. sharp, just minutes after the owner, Craig Ponsford, put out the sidewalk "bread man" sculpture that alerts customers: Pizza night is on. "It's just...

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Well: Putting Fun in Fatherhood

As every dad knows, fatherhood isn't all fun and games. But our recent Father's Day question, "Are you a fun dad?" did prompt a number of amusing stories. We heard about dads who moonwalk, sing ZZ Top songs, play "name that potato," dress up as the Grim...

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Well: Who Can Speak for the Patient?

Our patient was never going to wake up. He had an unrecoverable brain injury. The prognosis had become clear over time. As the patient's attending physician in the intensive care unit, I arranged a meeting with his sister, the only visitor we'd seen...

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Well: Putting Fun in Fatherhood

As every dad knows, fatherhood isn't all fun and games. But our recent Father's Day question, "Are you a fun dad?" did prompt a number of amusing stories. We heard about dads who moonwalk, sing ZZ Top songs, play "name that potato," dress up as the Grim...

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The Consumer: Dense Breasts May Obscure Mammogram Results

The Consumer Advice on money and health. The doctors were pleased to inform me, the letter said, that the results of the mammogram were normal. Early detection of cancer is important, a report was sent to my referring physician, I should report...

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Well: Exercise and the ‘Good’ Bugs in Our Gut

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Being physically active may encourage beneficial germs to thrive in your gut, while inactivity could do the reverse, according to an innovative new study. The findings suggest that, in addition...

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DealBook: Supreme Court Rejects Argentina’s Debt Appeal

Updated, 7:57 p.m. | The Supreme Court handed Argentina two major defeats on Monday in cases brought by bondholders who refused to accept reduced payments after the country's 2001 default. The developments are likely to add to the turmoil in Argentina's...

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Bits Blog: Looking at Link Between Violent Video Games and Lack of Empathy

The sound of machine guns rattled through the building as explosions shook the walls. No, I wasn't at a weapons convention or shooting range or in an impromptu war. I was at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo here, also known as E3. With shootings...

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Well: Steering Clear of Poison Ivy

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. I was once among those who claim, "I could walk through a field of poison ivy and not get it." One day I learned otherwise: On a hike, I needed to relieve myself in the great outdoors and ended...

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Well: Threat Grows From Liver Illness Tied to Obesity

Despite major gains in fighting hepatitis C and other chronic liver conditions, public health officials are now faced with a growing epidemic of liver disease that is tightly linked to the obesity crisis. In the past two decades, the prevalence of the...

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