Recent Blog Articles
Talking to your doctor about your LGBTQ+ sex life
Untangling grief: Living beyond a great loss
Thunderstorm asthma: Bad weather, allergies, and asthma attacks
Heart problems and the heat: What to know and do
I’m too young to have Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, right?
Period equity: What it is and why it matters
Back pain: Will treatment for the mind, body—or both—help?
Colon cancer screening decisions: What’s the best option and when?
Cognitive effects in midlife of long-term cannabis use
If climate change keeps you up at night, here's how to cope
Daniel Pendick
Former Executive Editor, Harvard Men's Health Watch
Daniel Pendick is a former executive editor of Harvard Men’s Health Watch. He previously served as editor and chief writer for the Cleveland Clinic Men’s Health Advisor and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine’s Focus On Healthy Aging. Dan earned a master of arts degree in the history of science and medicine from the University of Wisconsin in 1992, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 1998–99. He is also a lecturer in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches the next generation of physicians and biomedical researchers how to communicate more effectively with each other and the general public.
Posts by Daniel Pendick
Mind & Mood
Stress-busting mind-body medicine reduces need for health care
Daniel Pendick
Mediterranean diet may prevent breast cancer, but there are other reasons to pour on the olive oil
Men's Health
Is treating “low T” really safe and effective?
Heart Health
CPR during cardiac arrest: someone’s life is in your hands
Daniel Pendick
New recommendations aim to improve safety of pain-relieving spinal steroid injections
Daniel Pendick
An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but it’s a healthy choice anyway
Heart Health
Peanuts linked to same heart, longevity benefits as more pricey nuts
Daniel Pendick
A healthy diet is the key to getting the iron you need
Daniel Pendick
Report highlights the dangers of opioid painkillers
Daniel Pendick
Can an app help you lose weight?
Heart Health
Some home blood pressure monitors aren’t accurate
Heart Health
Some doctors oversell artery-opening angioplasty
Daniel Pendick
Advice you may not hear from your doctor: Don’t go out in the sun without protection
Cancer
Erectile dysfunction drugs and skin cancer — should you worry?
Daniel Pendick
For women on osteoporosis drug “holiday,” bone testing at one year offers little benefit
Daniel Pendick
New drugs offer easier, more effective hepatitis C treatment
Daniel Pendick
Most headache-related brain scans aren’t needed
Daniel Pendick
After hip fracture, exercise at home boosts day-to-day function
Heart Health
Mediterranean-style diet linked to healthier arteries throughout the body
Daniel Pendick
Treating severe snoring can help with tough-to-control blood pressure
Heart Health
PET scans peer into the heart of dementia
Daniel Pendick
5 steps for preventing kidney stones
Daniel Pendick
Study suggests testing bone health in older people less often may be safe
Cancer
