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How — and why — to fit more fiber and fermented food into your meals
Tick season is expanding: Protect yourself against Lyme disease
What? Another medical form to fill out?
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A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do
Harvard Health Ad Watch: New drug, old song, clever tagline
Concussion in children: What to know and do
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Howard E. LeWine, MD
Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing
Dr. Howard LeWine is a practicing internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Chief Medical Editor at Harvard Health Publishing, and editor in chief of Harvard Men’s Health Watch.
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Howard E. LeWine, MD
Quick injection helps stop epileptic seizures
Howard E. LeWine, MD
Pregnancy-related high blood pressure, diabetes linked to later heart disease
Howard E. LeWine, MD
Addiction: It retrains the brain, is tougher on women
Heart Health
Heart’s “fountain of youth” starts flowing early
Staying Healthy
Living to 100 and beyond: the right genes plus a healthy lifestyle
Heart Health
Leg clots (aka deep-vein thrombosis): an immediate and long-term health hazard
Cancer
For some prostate cancers, waiting beats treatment
Exercise & Fitness
Does fitness offset fatness?
Howard E. LeWine, MD
New York City pushes earlier treatment for AIDS
Exercise & Fitness
Whole-body vibration doesn’t slow bone loss
Howard E. LeWine, MD
Taking blood pressure pills at bedtime may prevent more heart attacks, strokes
Heart Health
“Portfolio” beats low-fat diet for lowering cholesterol
Heart Health
Painkillers pose problems for people with heart disease
Cancer
Should smokers be tested for lung cancer?
Recent Blog Articles
How — and why — to fit more fiber and fermented food into your meals
Tick season is expanding: Protect yourself against Lyme disease
What? Another medical form to fill out?
How do trees and green spaces enhance our health?
A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do
Harvard Health Ad Watch: New drug, old song, clever tagline
Concussion in children: What to know and do
What color is your tongue? What's healthy, what's not?
Your amazing parathyroid glands
When — and how — should you be screened for colon cancer?