Tag Archives: Year’s

This Man's New Year’s Running Resolution Helped Him Lose 59 Pounds

Name: Rob NestleAge: 39Occupation: SalesHometown: Fort Gratiot, Michigan Start Weight: 256 poundsEnd Weight: 197 poundsTime Running: 1 year I lacked exercise in my life. At my heaviest, my weight got up to 256 pounds. I was into the too-busy-to-work-out routine, and didn’t exactly make the best decisions with my eating habits, either. But I never… Read More: This Man's New Year’s Running Resolution Helped Him Lose 59… »

A step-by-step guide on how to choose, make, and keep New Year’s resolutions

As the holiday music fades and the time to pay the resolutions piper comes due, let Harvard experts make the transition a little easier. Don’t know where to start? You can try the 1 percent performance improvement method. Stressed at the prospect of a lifestyle change? Practice mindfulness and find out how meditation can lead to… Read More: A step-by-step guide on how to choose, make, and keep… »

Woman donates kidney to ex-husband years after divorce

Mary Zeigler donated a kidney to her ex-husband Bill 20 years after the pair split up. (Fox 9 ) Former childhood sweethearts, whose fairytale ended 20 years ago after 24 years of marriage and two children, still fulfilled their promises of “in sickness and in health” after Mary Zeigler provided her ex-husband Bill Henrichs with a kidney.… Read More: Woman donates kidney to ex-husband years after divorce »

Pediatric leukemia 'super drug' could be developed in the coming years

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered two successful therapies that slowed the progression of pediatric leukemia in mice, according to three studies published over the last two years in the journal Cell, and the final paper published Dec. 20 in Genes & Development. When a key protein responsible for leukemia, MLL, is stabilized, it slows the… Read More: Pediatric leukemia 'super drug' could be developed in the coming… »