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Howard E. LeWine, MD

Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing; Editorial Advisory Board Member, 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.

Posts by Howard E. LeWine, MD

How do you stop nosebleeds? featured image

Ear, nose, and throat

How do you stop nosebleeds?

What lifestyle changes can help lower cancer risk? featured image

Cancer

What lifestyle changes can help lower cancer risk?

Two-thirds of seniors need help doing one or more daily activities featured image

Howard E. LeWine, MD

Two-thirds of seniors need help doing one or more daily activities

Balance training seems to prevent falls, injuries in seniors featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Balance training seems to prevent falls, injuries in seniors

World Stroke Day: stroke is common, disabling, and often preventable featured image

Howard E. LeWine, MD

World Stroke Day: stroke is common, disabling, and often preventable

Doctors often don’t reveal cancer test overtreatment and harms featured image

Cancer

Doctors often don’t reveal cancer test overtreatment and harms

Letters from an obese president tell a familiar story of struggling with weight featured image

Diet and nutrition

Letters from an obese president tell a familiar story of struggling with weight

Drinking a little alcohol early in pregnancy may be okay featured image

Women's Health

Drinking a little alcohol early in pregnancy may be okay

Is three cups of coffee a day too much? featured image

Diet and nutrition

Is three cups of coffee a day too much?

Can vitamins and natural supplements help prevent frequent headaches? featured image

Pain

Can vitamins and natural supplements help prevent frequent headaches?

Could stress be responsible for my costochondritis? featured image

Bones and joints

Could stress be responsible for my costochondritis?

Do I need to avoid grapefruit if I am on a statin? featured image

Medications and treatments

Do I need to avoid grapefruit if I am on a statin?

What could cause night sweats in a middle-age man? featured image

Men's Health

What could cause night sweats in a middle-age man?

How do carbohydrates influence triglyceride levels? featured image

Heart Health

How do carbohydrates influence triglyceride levels?

What is oral thrush and why do I keep getting it? featured image

Immune and infectious diseases

What is oral thrush and why do I keep getting it?

Can weather affect blood pressure? featured image

Heart Health

Can weather affect blood pressure?

Should I switch my acid reflux medicine? featured image

Digestive Health

Should I switch my acid reflux medicine?

What could cause sudden leg weakness? featured image

Heart Health

What could cause sudden leg weakness?

How does celiac disease weaken bones? featured image

Bones and joints

How does celiac disease weaken bones?

Want to live to age 120? Most Americans say no featured image

Howard E. LeWine, MD

Want to live to age 120? Most Americans say no

Taking aspirin linked to lower risk of colorectal cancer featured image

Cancer

Taking aspirin linked to lower risk of colorectal cancer

Fish oil: friend or foe? featured image

Diet and nutrition

Fish oil: friend or foe?

New trial muddies the water about diet, exercise, and diabetes featured image

Exercise and Fitness

New trial muddies the water about diet, exercise, and diabetes

HPV transmission during oral sex a growing cause of mouth and throat cancer featured image

Cancer

HPV transmission during oral sex a growing cause of mouth and throat cancer

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