by Karin Fleming | Aug 3, 2023
Many new moms benefit from advice and tips from their own mothers when caring for their newborn. Few have the opportunity to receive such support from their grandmothers and great grandmothers. Twenty-year-old Matilynn Stevens was lucky enough to receive that “legacy”...
by Karin Fleming | Jul 19, 2023
As people age, they may experience an increase in things like grey hair, weight around the middle and potentially lapses in memory. But some aspects of our body’s functioning decrease with age, and muscle mass is one. Sarcopenia, a reduction in skeletal muscle mass...
by Karin Fleming | Jul 17, 2023
A moving documentary describes actor Michael J. Fox’s rise to stardom and at one time his hidden Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnosis. He spent years concealing his condition. After going public with his disease in 1998, he devoted himself to raising awareness and...
by Karin Fleming | Jun 27, 2023
Shanaz Dairkee, Ph.D., a senior scientist at Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI) in San Francisco has been studying the potential link between environmental chemicals and breast cancer since 2005. Now, she and research colleagues...
by Karin Fleming | May 18, 2023
In the mid-1700s, Scottish physician-researcher Dr. James Lind encouraged a group of sailors to join an experiment in which they ate oranges and lemons. Turns out the vitamin C-rich fruit helped prevent the onset of scurvy—an illness caused by severe vitamin C...