In Focus Articles Archive
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue November 2008
When Nicolle Ferguson, 51, of Southampton, Pennsylvania, can’t find time to exercise, she remembers a phone call from her great-uncle 40 years ago.
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue September 2008
Sally Stabb, PhD, holds a spiky rubber ball in her hand. She whisks the multicolored toy behind her back and then pretends to eat it.
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by Julie A. Evans
- Issue July 2008
In 1996, Lanita Moss, then 32, was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer called Paget’s disease.
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by Kate Dailey
- Issue May 2008
5 common beliefs get a dose of reality
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by Susan Flagg Godbey
- Issue April 2008
The latest “drug problem” involves prescription drugs, and it’s not just about abuse.
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue January 2008
For more than 20 years, Carolyn Haman avoided family physicians, eye doctors, dentists, and gynecologists.
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue December 2007
Each year, 21 million Americans get hurt—and 18,500 are killed—in home accidents, yet 97 percent of us believe our homes are havens.
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue October 2007
Once, Sharon Dean carried ibuprofen in her purse, stashed some in her desk at a Chicago software company, and kept bottles in both her pantry and bathroom medicine cabinet.
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by Michael Tennesen
- Issue August 2007
The next time your doctor stares at your chart and tells you to trim the fat…
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by Michael Tennesen
- Issue July 2007
Could you be the latest victim of the newest epidemic called boomeritis?
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue April 2007
Hampton, 58, a real estate agent and insurance broker from Cynthiana, Kentucky, took his last sleeping pill on November 21, 2005.
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by Julie A. Evans
- Issue January 2007
Bellyache. Dizziness. Confusion. Constipation. All pretty harmless conditions that everyone has at one time or another.
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue December 2006
A close look at your lifestyle may tell you if you’re at risk of joining the 21 million Americans who have type 2 diabetes.
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue September 2006
Don’t count on antibiotics, high-potency vitamins, or exotic herbal cocktails to keep your immune system going strong during cold and flu season. Your body’s complex infection-fighting arsenal works best…
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by Sara Altshul
- Issue July 2006
For many of us, staying healthy equals subtraction—losing weight, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, reducing stress, eating fewer calories, and consuming less fat.
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by Bill Doherty
- Issue April 2006
When Michael Parkinson developed a lesion on his left ear, he said it was “no big deal” and, in typical guy fashion, didn’t get it checked out by a doctor. But what makes him different from most guys is that he is a doctor—and president-elect of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
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by Sarí Harrar
- Issue February 2006
You’d never sunbathe on the interstate, lunch on month-old coleslaw, or cavalierly crumple the pediatrician’s antibiotic prescription for a sick child. Too dumb, you say. Too risky.
