I read research studies incessantly — it is part of how I have come to be an early adopter of treatments that even years later, some of my colleagues don't know about. But that habit has also made me allergic to the way science gets sold. Open any feed

If I could persuade every patient over fifty of just one thing, it might be this: the muscle you carry is not vanity, it is infrastructure. It is how you stay independent, how you recover from illness and surgery, how you avoid the fall that too often begins a long