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Do Negative Emotions, Stress, and Anxiety Lead to Heart Disease? Shutterstock

Do Negative Emotions, Stress, and Anxiety Lead to Heart Disease?

While causality is still unproven, there appears to be an association between coronary heart disease and anger and other untoward feelings.

My Husband, Alzheimer's Patient Basic Health

My Husband, Alzheimer's Patient

Like millions of other people in the U.S., Steve Newport suffers from Alzheimer's disease. And while there's no cure for his ailments, a diet of medium-chain fatty acids has been helping.

Coffee's Effect on the Heart Is So Small You Should Stop Worrying Shutterstock

Coffee's Effect on the Heart Is So Small You Should Stop Worrying

Some scientists have suggested that drinking coffee might be bad for the heart, but others have repeatedly rebutted their findings.

You're Getting Dumber as You Age: Here's How to Slow the Decline Rodale Books

You're Getting Dumber as You Age: Here's How to Slow the Decline

Aging alone causes us to lose brain cells and mental processing speed, but there are several other causes that you have more control over.

How Coronary Heart Disease Became Our Biggest Problem Shutterstock

How Coronary Heart Disease Became Our Biggest Problem

In 1900, pneumonia was the leading cause of death in the U.S., but when doctors found ways to keep us alive longer, the heart gave out.

The Holy Grail of Medicine: On the Mystery and Power of Stem Cells Arcade Publishing

The Holy Grail of Medicine: On the Mystery and Power of Stem Cells

They've already enabled paralyzed rats to walk, blind mice to see, and monkeys suffering from Parkinson's to show improvement. What's next?

The Story of an Influential AIDS Doctor Working in the Deep South Lawrence Hill Books

The Story of an Influential AIDS Doctor Working in the Deep South

After seeing patients with AIDS as an infectious disease specialist, Dr. Robert Ball Jr. went from conservative to white southern progressive.

Invisible Men: Patrick's Story and the Consequences of Silence Times Books

Invisible Men: Patrick's Story and the Consequences of Silence

Patrick, a middle-aged man with no history of psychiatric illness found himself struggling with a deep depression after losing his job.

On Grieving for a Lost Loved One Syracuse University Press

On Grieving for a Lost Loved One

It is a vast, empty space; the markers of other memories all around, names of other lives and the small stones placed there by the survivors, by the ones whose fate is it to remember

Before Occupy: How AIDS Activists Seized Control of the FDA in 1988 Associated Press

Before Occupy: How AIDS Activists Seized Control of the FDA in 1988

An activist recounts how ACT UP demonstrators used a mastery of media and medicine to push their careful agenda. Occupiers, take note.

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