We hear a lot about studies, theories and celebrities espousing the best diet for us.

We've all heard about the No Child Left Inside initiatives launched around the country in recent years by parents, educators and health professionals worried about what's been termed "nature deficit...

For 13 years, Rhonda Taylor suffered from pain and a shrinking range of motion in her shoulder and neck.

Hospitalized after a heart attack, Denise Isbell and her doctor agreed: She shouldn't be there.

The stroke Barbara Chen recently suffered has kept her apart from her three beloved dogs as she undergoes rehab at Providence Medford Medical Center.

I recently held a Skype consultation from my office in Ashland with a deaf client in Florida who has breast cancer.

As the nation embarks on a top-down overhaul of health care, a simple movement with the potential to improve wellness is quietly growing from the ground up.

Some pills can be helpful in maintaining health.

The National Cancer Institute defines neoadjuvant therapy as treatment given as a first step to shrink a tumor before the main treatment, often surgery.

The pain Shara Baack experiences every day defies description as a headache.

Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a "food-borne" illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack...

The days of a heart-surgery patient leaving the hospital pumped full of someone else's blood are over at Rogue Regional Medical Center.

Most people think of "Rocky" when they think of boxing gyms: lots of sweat, the pop and smack of gloves hitting practice mitts, sparring overseen by a grizzled, old trainer squinting around a burning...

At 70 years old, Ashland resident Angie Thusius is her own best example of the benefits of Kentro Body Balance, a system of movements she developed for the most practical of reasons: to heal herself...

Natural-foods chef and nutrition counselor Roanne Lewis confesses that she loves to eat. And who doesn't?

Stress and trauma in childhood tend to lead to anxiety and poor health in adulthood, according to Minnesota's first-ever survey of adults about "adverse experiences" in their youth.

A new program offers help for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's and other dementia.

It's cool to nap.

It's 8 o'clock in the morning and 18 "bone-builders" in Ashland are bouncing through hallways at The Grove, keeping their muscles warm and heart rates high in between exercises.

One of the more complex things about working with people who have challenging, chronic health conditions is putting together a cohesive plan they can execute and integrate into daily life.