At my morning meeting I noticed something peculiar outside the building. Though I’ve seen strange things on our corner—Dalai Lama protests, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition-themed buses, and Radio City Music Hall performances—I’ve never seen a van offering screening tests for deep vein thrombosis. I guess it makes sense, since it is National Deep Vein Thrombosis Screening Day (read our weight loss editor’s reasons why you should be screened). But bringing screening to the public seems to be a rising trend. Read More
A few days ago I went to the driving range with my 82-year-old mother and hit 100 golf balls while she hit 50. She drove the ball straight, about 75 yards. I’m hopeless: 200 yards, but the ball flies east, west, north, or straight up in an homage to chaos theory. What’s remarkable is that, a few years ago, my mom couldn’t possibly have hit a golf ball. Her 
Ten minutes after we turned on the 
Want to take the measure of American health obsessions (and those of the rest of the world, for that matter)? Go fishing in YouTube, the billion-screen multiplex of the video id. The channel contains a deep and often deeply weird vein of health content, ranging from the inspiring to the neurotic, the crackpot to the almost pornographic. The following is part one of a periodic survey—periodic meaning whenever I get around to it.
“I don’t smoke anymore, but the damage is done,” says Marie from the Bronx, holding up two stumpy rows of partially amputated fingers in a 
The Web is an ecosystem, and you can bet it’s being studied. The creatures who live on the Web—you and me, virtually—leave behind tons of data. One example: online health communities, which, as they grow, amass a body of information that medical researchers can mine.
