Well: Healing Teenage Cancer’s Scars

Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Photo Credit Sarah Williamson The teenage years can be tough enough under the best of circumstances. But when cancer invades an adolescent's life, the challenges grow exponentially. When...

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Well: Ask Well: Are Spray-On Sunscreens Safe?

A The short answer is that for now, not even the Food and Drug Administration knows. In 2011, with the number of sunscreen sprays "greatly increasing," the agency asked their makers to demonstrate their safety and efficacy. Little was known about...

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Well: Food and the Dying Patient

Photo Credit Getty Images The patient had dementia and could no longer swallow. The intricate workings of the muscles of her throat were failing, and she was no longer able to move food or liquids reliably into her stomach. Instead, they too...

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Well: What Is So Special About Iyengar Yoga?

Slide Show This week, the international yoga community said goodbye to a beloved teacher, B.K.S. Iyengar, who died at the age of 95. He is credited with bringing yoga to the Western world and making it accessible to every age and walk of life. To...

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Well: Is Breakfast Overrated?

Photo Credit Illustration by Ben Wiseman For years, we've heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But scientific support for that idea has been surprisingly meager, and a spate of new research at several different universities...

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Well: Feeding Your Canine Athlete

Photo Dogs are endowed with more endurance-related muscle fibers than cats, making them better running companions.Credit IStock Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Many people who run or walk with their dogs treat them...

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Well: Legal Marijuana for Parents, but Not Their Kids

Photo Credit Stuart Bradford The Well Column Tara Parker-Pope on living well. When the antidrug educator Tim Ryan talks to students, he often asks them what they know about marijuana. "It's a plant," is a common response. But more recently,...

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Well: Picking Apart Objections to Eating Fish

Photo Credit Brian Stauffer Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. I grew up eating fish. My family enjoyed a fish meal at least once a week, usually mackerel, salmon trout (now called steelhead) or flounder. Lox, pickled herring,...

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Well: Vitamin D Tied to Alzheimer’s Risk

Low vitamin D is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, according to a new report, though whether low vitamin D is a cause of the disorders remains unknown. The scientists measured blood levels of vitamin...

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Well: The Downside of Running With Others

Photo Credit Jordan Siemens/Getty Images My husband won't talk to me when we run. Me, I need to carry on a conversation from the minute I start running to the minute I stop. The chitchat helps me forget the misery of the task at hand. But more...

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Well: Practicing on Patients

"Who should do this case?" That was the question a senior surgeon posed to me outside a patient's room in the cardiac care unit. Judging by his expression, he already knew the answer. The patient had a serious infection that had eroded her heart valve,...

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Well: How Exercise Helps Us Tolerate Pain

Photo Credit Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Regular exercise may alter how a person experiences pain, according to a new study. The longer we continue to work out, the new findings suggest,...

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Hard Cases: Top Doctors, Dead or Alive

Hard Cases Dr. Abigail Zuger on the everyday ethical issues doctors face. The official letter is sitting on my desk, announcing that a relative of mine has just been named one of the world's top physicians in his area of expertise. Once he confirms...

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Mind: Gene Strategy to Fight Alzheimer’s Clears a Hurdle

Photo Credit Stuart Bradford The 40-year-old man showed up in Dr. Mary Malloy's clinic with sadly disfiguring symptoms. His hands, elbows, ears and feet were blemished with protruding pustules and tuber-like welts, some so painful it was hard...

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Well: Ask Well: Does Yoga Build Strength?

Photo Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times A In general, the few available experiments involving yoga suggest that it leads to measurable but limited and patchy strength gains. Consider the results of a 2012 study of premenopausal women...

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Doctor and Patient: Throwing Money at the Past

Photo Credit Dario Lo Presti/Getty Images Doctor and Patient Dr. Pauline Chen on medical care. The current physician training system, heavily subsidized by the federal government, has not produced doctors prepared to serve in a changing...

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Well: Think Like a Doctor: Losing It

Think Like a Doctor Solve a medical mystery with Dr. Lisa Sanders. Photo Credit Anna Kovecses The Challenge: A 55-year-old man loses the hair on his legs, loses weight and then loses his strength. Can you figure out why? Every month, the...

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Well: Why We Should Know the Price of Medical Tests

Photo Credit Stuart Bradford One of the common arguments against mandating or providing upfront prices for medical tests and procedures is that American patients are not very skilled consumers of health care and will assume high prices mean high...

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Well: Women Pace Marathons Better Than Men Do

Photo Credit Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. During marathons, women pace themselves more evenly than male competitors do, according to a study of thousands of racers. The results provide unexpected...

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