Living Well
What You Need to Know
About Clinical Trials

By Mary Beth King, Medica

From lowering cholesterol to battling dangerous infections, new medicines have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. These medicines don’t simply appear, however. Many of them reach pharmacy shelves only after years of research and development.

The Healthy Table
Color Your Diet Healthy

By Pat Sinclair

Increasing the amount of colorful fruits and vegetables in your diet has many health benefits. Chemical compounds called antioxidants are high in this brightly colored group of foods and more and more studies are finding a positive relationship between antioxidants and reduction in diseases such as cancer and heart disease.

Life Lessons
The Wake We Leave Behind

By Meredith Jordan

Start here: My friend Dennis, the gentlest of souls, was at my home to fix a small hole under the front door through which mice had come in during the cold of winter. Dennis is a master at these fix-it things, where I have no skill set adequate to the task. He spent one Saturday taking apart the front door to get a good look at the problem.