The facts about heart disease in American women are tragically absent from our contemporary public dialogue. Dallas-based cardiologist Shyla T. High aims to change that, and her excellent new book, Why Most Women Die: How Women Can Fight... Read More

For many people, hypnosis conjures up thoughts of trances, trickery, and losing one’s free will to some mysterious Svengali-like figure. Although perhaps vaguely known for its use to curb undesirable habits such as smoking, there’s... Read More

Many people who struggle with excess fat don’t know how they got there and imagine that it is impossible to lose the weight. The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss parses down everything people will need to know to embark on... Read More

"Waist Away" reads like one of those long, candid conversations you’ve always wanted to have with your family doctor. The kind you never get to enjoy because everyone’s watching the clock and other patients are waiting. But if you... Read More

In his prescription for living a longer, healthier life, Dr. Stephen K. Fairley chooses to leave off the sugarcoating, instead asking readers to swallow a bitter pill of sarcasm-laden advice. He justifies his take-no-prisoners approach... Read More

Giving the health care system a thorough checkup, James T. Hansen diagnoses modern medicine with a critical loss of human connection, leading to poor outcomes for patients and physicians alike. In his memoir, Reinvent the Heal: A... Read More

Parents of a young person with an eating disorder often don’t know what they can do to help, if hospitalization is the best choice, or how to keep their child from relapsing after treatment. Ebsen William Amarteifio, a registered... Read More

Bob Northam has kidney disease. He survived many years functioning with a kidney donated by his loving mother, but that organ eventually failed. Because of this, he has been on dialysis for seven years, driving to a dialysis facility... Read More