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A new study finds that those who are most fit at midlife suffer the fewest chronic diseases after the age of 65 and boost the number of years they will live healthy lives. Read More

Want to take off those extra pesky pounds? Try grabbing more shut-eye. Read More

In addition to the problem of texting when a child should be sleeping, the act of looking at screens right before bed can make sleeping more difficult. Read More

Sleepwalking tends to conjure up thoughts of Lady Macbeth or of zombie-gaited kids with outstretched arms trying to fool friends at slumber parties. Read More

As student athletes begin a new school year, players, staff and parents need to be mindful of staph infections. Read More

As West Nile makes more and more people sick in Massachusetts and across the country, disease trackers fear the infections may be a harbinger. Read More

Ten years ago as part of standard preseason cognitive testing, a famous pro athlete tried to recite from memory the dozen words I had just read aloud. Read More

It’s a bad West Nile virus season. Here are some basic facts about the virus and some things you can do to protect yourself, gleaned from a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Robert W. Haley. Read More

Dr. Robert Haley has some simple advice for doctors whose patients show up this summer with simple, unexplained symptoms, such as a fever. Read More

If you have a relative who died of heart disease before age 60, your own risk of early heart trouble is higher as well, a study involving millions of people in Denmark over three decades has determined. Read More