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Well: Think Like a Doctor: Packing on the Pounds Solved!
Readers solve the case of a 59-year-old woman with unexplained weight gain.
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Well: Parents With Sleep Problems Think Their Children Have Them, Too
Doctors have to remember that reports of the children are coming through the filter of the parents — on sleep and other issues.
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Well: The Benefits of Spicing Up a Breast-Feeding Mother’s Diet
Children who were nursed as babies may accept more foods later because they’ve experienced a variety of flavors from the start.
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Well: When Friends Are ‘Like Family’
The comfort of a close bond can sometimes morph into the restraints of bondage.
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Well: Seeking Painkillers in the Emergency Room
“Why wouldn’t I give patients a Percocet prescription? It makes their life easier and my life easier,” a colleague said to me recently. But that’s not the answer to the opioid epidemic.
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Well: How Much Money Is Enough?
Most of us want our children to have the best of everything, but not too much of anything.
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Ask Well: Should I Take a Potassium Supplement?
Many Americans fall short on potassium because we don’t eat nearly enough fruits and vegetables, and supplements contain so little of the mineral that they are not really helpful.
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Well: An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage
An intervention to switch on my emotions succeeded beyond my wildest dreams, but it turned my life upside down.
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Ask Well: Ask Well: 20 Seconds to Better Fitness?
A reader asks: Is there a specific amount of time at which to keep your heart rate up during interval training to get the most benefit?
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