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This month marks both the occasion of my mother’s birthday (she would have turned 84 on May 7th) and, of course, Mother’s Day – the first Mother’s day in living memory that I d idn...

"Silent damage, death by stealth. An unfelt pain revealed . . . " Manchester, England's Lorraine Gradwell agreed to share with us the poem she wrote shortly after surviving what doctors call a "widow maker...

Dr. Richard Smith, writing in the British Medical Journal last month, offered such a revealing overview of everything that is wrong in medicine that I feel compelled to share with you his recent artic le...

I should cut down the consumption of white rice! That was the message I heard from my late father who was diagnosed with diabetes in his 40s. But he did not tell me why. Perhaps he thought I was too y oung...

Stress not only impairs formation and recall of long term memory and is strongly associated with clinical depression, but - of special interest to heart patients - it ironically seems to bring on a d ecreased...