Monthly Archives: April 2016

10 Things Every Woman Should Know About Maintaining Healthy Bones

1 of 12 Bone up on your bones by Hallie Levine When it comes to protecting your body’s 206 bones, it’s never too early to start, says Abby Abelson, MD, chair of the department of rheumatic and immunologic diseases at the Cleveland Clinic. “Many women don’t even think about their bones until they reach perimenopause,”… Read More »

Am I Peeing Too Much? How to Tell What's Normal

Do you get up to pee twice as often as your co-workers? Or maybe you’re the type of person who can go hours without a bathroom break, no matter how much water you down. Pee patterns seem to run the gamut from high frequency to hardly ever—which made us wonder, What’s a normal number of times to go in a day? (You can laugh now, but… Read More »

Do You Need a Personal Health Coach?

Cabbage and her coach, Ryan Sherman, set up a schedule that involved weekly emails, a phone call every six weeks and face-to-face meetings every six months. In time, she learned to trust his advice. “He was encouraging but not unrealistic,” she says. “He would challenge me if a goal seemed wimpy or help reframe… Read More »

Will Immunotherapy Be the End of Cancer?

In September of 2011, I did the worst Google search of my life. A year after a seemingly manageable melanoma diagnosis and surgery, I learned that my cancer had appeared again, this time moving aggressively into my lungs and soft tissue. Naturally, the first thing I did was open my laptop and type “stage 4 melanoma life… Read More »

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