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  • When Is the Right Time To Have a Baby?

    There’s no formula for calculating the best time to start your journey to motherhood. And it’s nearly impossible to know when to change your entire lifestyle, even if the payoff is a beautiful bundle of joy.

  • How Much Weight Should I Lose To Protect My Heart?

    Too often, people wait for a health scare before getting serious about shedding pounds.

  • Bariatric Surgery Can Help You Sleep Better

    If you’re severely overweight or obese, you’re likely jolted out of sleep several times every night -- without even knowing it. Or, you may already spend your slumber hours hooked up to a CPAP machine to keep your breathing steady.

  • How Inactivity and Over-Exuberance Wreak Havoc on Our Feet (and What To Do About it)

    Prolonged periods of inactivity caused by illness, extreme weather or even a pandemic can result in an unexpected increase in foot and ankle issues. The chaos created by COVID-19 did more than throw our lives off balance. For some, stay-put orders resulted in more sedentary lifestyles as they curled up on the couch with their TV and laptops. Others used their new work-from-home status as a green light to jump into action, replacing trips to the gym with exuberant outdoor activity and new exercise equipment. 

  • Lower Back Pain? How Physical Therapy Can Help

    If you don’t have occasional bouts with lower back pain, odds are that you know someone who does -- with an estimated 80 percent of us experiencing lower back pain at some point in our lives.

  • Medicated or Natural Childbirth? You Have Options

    Some moms-to-be are all about natural childbirth – forgoing medication during labor and delivery. Others want to minimize pain as much as possible while bringing their precious baby into the world.

  • 7 Tips for Exercising with GERD

    When it comes to acid reflux, exercise may be a double-edged sword. Although movement is critical to managing weight and overall health, certain types of exercise can worsen the symptoms of GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease). And now some research indicates that exercise can cause GERD to begin.

  • When Holiday Drinking Is Bad for Your Heart

    The holiday season brings with it no shortage of temptations when it comes to food and drink. Parties and get-togethers with family and friends are full of opportunities to load your plate and fill your glass -- over and over again.

  • Pregnant? What To Pack for the Hospital – and What To Leave at Home

    You’re having a baby! It’s an exciting time with a ton of details you need to think about – including what to pack for the hospital. Before the big day, give yourself time to envision what’s going to make you most comfortable.

  • Christina Applegate and Selma Blair shine a light on MS diagnosis and treatment

    If you watched the latest seasons of Dead to Me or Dancing with the Stars, you saw two well-known actors powering through the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.