I am not a laid back person. I never have been. I worry and get stressed and can be quite negative sometimes. Last year, this started to get slowly worse. It took a long time to notice it but I lost control of how stressed I was getting. I would randomly start crying in the taxi on the way to …

Major achievements are something that most of us strive for in our lives. We celebrate our successes with our peers, talk about them with our friends, and instill their value in our children. How do female doctors today view success? Whether it is being awarded a prize for professional achievements or stepping back from an active career and spending more …

For women who have multiple miscarriages, the pain of repeated loss is often compounded by another reality. The causes behind miscarriage are complex and often difficult to identify, and even those conditions and associations proposed as causes are poorly understood.  But there is good news too. Women with recurrent miscarriages can benefit from comprehensive evaluation, treatment and support programs, such …

I had a tough time getting into medical school. I was applying while concurrently finishing a PhD at Boston University, which meant that I was working on my application in stolen moments between experiments and writing papers. When I asked my graduate medical education office what assistance they could offer, they arranged a meeting with a professor that frequently works …

In 2014 the providers and staff of Quito Osuna Carr, MD & Associates, a small family practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico, began a journey to help their patients who were suffering from depression. Today, nearly three years later, their only regret is not starting sooner.  “I would have done it earlier,” office manager Priscilla Garcia said. “We find so much …

What is Margarete Jentschura’s Secret? (Editor’s note: We were amazed when we heard that Margarete Jentschura still visits her family-owned health food store in Muenster, Germany every day – at 103 years old! So we asked her grandson, Roland Jentschura (MSc), how she manages this.) Vitality: Hello Roland, by now your grandmother is over 103 years old, yet she still …

How I Learned to Undiet My Life I was never a cook. It just didn’t matter to me. That is, it didn’t matter until it had to – until my health, and the direction of my life, depended on it. In 2006 I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. This autoimmune disease of the digestive tract is commonly believed to be …