Nantucket, a beautiful, 14-mile-long island off the coast of Massachusetts, has a 40-point resiliency plan to help withstand the buffeting seas surrounding it as climate change takes a toll. Perhaps we can all benefit from creating individual resilience plans to Read more

Looking for gifts to give or donate this year? Climate-conscious gifts come in many guises. They may directly support our environment, for example, or aim to reduce fossil fuel use and electronic, textile, and food waste. Or they might offer Read more

It used to be that radiation therapy for prostate cancer involved weeks or months of repeat visits to a clinic for treatment. Today that’s not necessarily true. Instead of giving small doses (called fractions) per session until the full plan Read more

Several evenings a week, as Tyler VanderWeele gathers around the dinner table with his wife and two young kids, the family deliberately pauses during the meal to do something simple but profound. Each member shares several things for which they’re Read more

Let’s face it: inflammation has a bad reputation. Much of it is well-deserved. After all, long-term inflammation contributes to chronic illnesses and deaths. If you just relied on headlines for health information, you might think that stamping out inflammation would Read more

I must have seen commercials for Prevagen 50 times: story after story from everyday people who describe improvement in memory once they began taking Prevagen. And perhaps you recall older commercials playing off the idea that many people take supplements Read more

“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” You know that how your body looks and feels sometimes changes by the day. One day you’re so bloated that your jeans feel a size Read more

Exercise is proven to be an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA). But most people have trouble doing it on a regular basis, even when they understand it can ease their OA. The Arthritis Foundation’s recent OA Clinical Studies (OACS) Forum, Read more

Self-care and complementary therapies help ease arthritis pain. There are many ways to manage arthritis pain. However, no single treatment is guaranteed to produce complete and consistent pain relief, and doctors say many patients have unrealistic expectations about how much Read more

One in six of us in the UK now live with arthritis, according to the latest figures from Versus Arthritis, which adds up to over 10 million people suffering with joint pain, swelling and stiffness, many in silence. But while Read more