Health & Wellness

Aging

Vital Signs

If you must grow old (and sorry, you must), you may be in the right place.

05/19/2009 By Camas Davis

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Mind the Gap

Buying green sure sounds like a good idea. But it’s also a luxury not everyone has.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

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Mother’s Helper

Award-winning doula Christy Hall talks about jailhouse births, modern feminism, and the postpartum watercooler.

05/19/2009 By Randy Gragg

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Power From the People

A Northeast Portland gym charges up with green energy—and sweat.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

Try It

Proven Practice?

Researchers put alternative medicine to the test.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

Medicine

Footing the Bill

Oregon insurance carriers say yes to alternative medicine.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

Alternative Medicine

Hippocrates, meet Lao-Tzu

From angioplasty to acupuncture, today everything's on the table.

05/19/2009 By Chris Lydgate

Onward & Upward

Project Me

Forget that your father was overbearing, your mother had money issues, and your college years were a bust.

05/19/2009 By Nancy Rommelmann

Dune Rider

King of the Hill

A board-sports fanatic adds yet another plank to his quiver in order to tackle an unlikely element: sand.

05/19/2009 With Brian Barker

Science & Tech

Cell Division

OHSU scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov believes his groundbreaking embryonic cloning and stem cell harvesting method will cure diseases like Parkinson’s.

05/19/2009 By Ted Katauskas

Health News

Size Matters

Asking the obese to pay higher health insurance premiums sure doesn’t sound fair. So does a “skinny discount” sound better?

05/19/2009 By Kasey Cordell

Hit List

Say Spaaah

Prime places for a springtime reawakening

05/19/2009 By Kasey Cordell and Kaitlin Johnson

Pet Cross

Nine Lives (and Counting)

The most generous donors at one animal clinic are a couple of cool cats.

05/19/2009 By Jason Cohen

Hit List

Lap Of Luxury

Your pet doesn’t know we’re in a recession. Here are five ways to give your best friend the red-carpet treatment.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

5 MINUTES WITH...

Michael Pollan

The reluctant leader of the sustainable food movement and best-selling author of "The Omnivore’s Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food" is nothing less than frank when addressing our failing food policies.

05/19/2009 By Nino Padova

Stay Well

House Calls

How a group of community clinics is cutting costs, improving their clients’ health, and transforming the doctor’s office into a place where patients feel at home.

05/19/2009 By Jill Davis