Article Archive for Alternative Therapies

“I would wake up in the morning and it felt like my face would crack from the dryness,” says New York City resident Carole Klein...

Concerned about overuse of prescription meds? Wary of ingredients in over-the-counter cold medicines? Pharmacy sections are being...

Alternative treatments (plus alternatives to the alternatives!)

It’s comforting to think that modern medicine and post-Freud psychology have banished the notion of “female hysteria,” that vague...

I'm something of a mosquito magnet. The reason, as I once learned while traveling through Mexico, that I've got something called...

Two years ago, Sheila Schmidt’s face was at that awkward age when fine lines begin creeping in to meet the blemishes and...

Going beyond massage

I once subscribed to the “no-pain-no-gain” school of thought. If it didn’t make sweat pour from my brow and my heart leap from my...

Sitting in a café, I was recounting to a friend a conversation I’d recently had with my doctor. “He wants to put me on fertility...

First, you neglect to change the engine oil. A few years later, you forget the car keys. At middle age (or earlier!), you...

In the West, stress has become a major contributor to disease, with some authorities attributing up to 80 percent of illness to...

Driving from LA to a wedding in Napa last June, my friend Sarah and I stopped halfway for a soak in the tubs at Sycamore Mineral...