Lisa Jevens

JOURNALIST, BRANDED CONTENT WRITER, EDITOR

Gadgets Help Arthritis Sufferers Get a Grip

In addition to being painful, arthritis can be limiting. Simple everyday tasks become major challenges. Fortunately, many clever,...

Are you ready for a knee replacement?

If you think you are too young to be one of the 600,000 folks considering having knee replacement this year, you may be surprised....

Treating dementia with high- and low-tech therapies

When you move a loved one into a memory care community, your family is entering a whole new world. Modern memory care is highly...

Plastic Surgery Bounces Back

Americans spent more than ever on cosmetic surgery in 2013—more than $12 billion. Nearly 2 million procedures were performed, a 6.5...

Alternative Cancer Treatments

Curing cancer is still the holy grail of health care. Unfortunately, there is no perfect cure for every cancer in every patient. That...

Transitioning to Cancer Recovery

It is just as important to plan for success after cancer treatment as it is before beginning it, experts say. In 2006, the Institute of...

Go retro when it comes to superfoods

Practically every celebrity, TV show and magazine related to food or health has come out with a list of “superfoods” we all should be...

Hospice helps families cope

When a loved one is slipping away, your family's whole world shifts. You're often on unfamiliar ground, dealing with complicated medical...

Telescope implant brings hope to age-related macular degeneration

Up until very recently, a diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration was a point of no return in vision loss. (AMD is when retinal...

Gluten free in your 50s and beyond

We've all seen the words "gluten free" on food labels and menus more and more these days, denoting a food is free of gluten, a protein...