Cindy is a patient who likes to send us notes before she comes to see us. On days that she does not have an appointment, we can usually expect to find on our desk a sweet, quirky, handwritten fax from her. These notes are usually updates on the ups and...

Although the risk of disease and disability clearly increase with advancing age, poor health is not an inevitable consequence of aging. Throughout the middle and later years, people gradually develop signs and symptoms of aging, like graying and thinning of the hair, ringing in the ears, hearing loss, infertility, diminished...

Nancy (a pseudonym) is a 30-year-old woman who has had pain in her lower abdomen for three months. It gets worse every time after she eats something oily or drinks anything cold.
She then has diarrhea for a couple days. She is easily fatigued and is sensitive to cold....

The history of performing arts is as old as humankind itself. And to many, performing arts -- singing, dancing, painting, playing musical instruments, and composing -- seem as essential to life as eating or sleeping. Apart from which they may not literally, but perhaps spiritually, die.

People often speak, anecdotally,...