Barbara Sadick

Specially trained mediators work with adult siblings and seniors to address family conflict and challenges around shared decision-making and communication.

Battling it out when it comes to aging parent’s care? Elder mediation might help

December 18, 2018 at 12:17 a.m.

After their mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia, Marnie Flowers and her three siblings began having difficulty agreeing on the best way to move forward to help her. Each had...

Faced with terminal illness, man chooses end-of-life option

June 5, 2018 at 1:44 p.m.

Five years ago, 64-year-old Ray Perman was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Perman, a designer and consultant who lived in the San Francisco Bay area, had sarcoma carcinoma, a rare and...

Doctors are promoting lifestyle changes based on nondrug modalities to prevent, treat and reverse lifestyle-related chronic diseases.

Doctors turning to healthy foods as medicine

June 8, 2018 at 8:29 p.m.

Dr. Elizabeth Klodas has been a practicing cardiologist in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area for 20 years. She spent the first 10 of those years putting people on medication and the...

Is Type 2 diabetes reversible?

June 9, 2018 at 9:22 a.m.

Katy Wiley began her struggle with Type 2 diabetes in 1990, when she was pregnant with her second child. The disease progressed, and at eight weeks she started insulin treatment,...

Certain treatments can cause harm, but with physicians who have experience in treating pregnant women with breast cancer, individually designed plans of action can successfully treat the cancer while keeping the baby healthy.

Pregnant women with breast cancer can be treated successfully

August 19, 2019 at 8:33 a.m.

Sarah Mital, a 35-year-old resident of New York was trying to get pregnant when she discovered a lump in her right breast. The next month, at her annual OB-GYN visit,...

This airport houses the country's biggest Imax theater. Dining options are varied for different budgets, and there is a designated sleeping area at one end of the terminal and a relaxation room downstairs from Gates 23 and 25.

A look at the growing specialty of hospitalist

June 10, 2018 at 5:08 a.m.

A hospitalist is a doctor who focuses on work in the hospital, caring for patients and navigating an increasingly complex medical institution. Rather than focusing on an organ or a...

Sugar consumption not only increases the risk of disease, it also raises the amount of advanced glycation end products (aptly known as AGEs) within the body.

Sugar consumption increases the risk of disease

June 10, 2018 at 2:51 p.m.

If you want to live a longer, healthier life, the single most important change to make is to stop eating and drinking foods that contain added sugars, one expert says....

The predominant medical approach has been to focus on lab tests, medication and surgery.

Doctors not taught to discuss diet, nutrition with patients

June 10, 2018 at 1:38 p.m.

Good diet and nutrition can put you on a path to health and wellness, but it's unusual to find doctors who are trained well enough and can spend the time...

Birth control options for women over 40 — other than the pill

June 12, 2018 at 2:47 a.m.

Almost one quarter of women in the United States between ages 15 and 44 use the birth control pill to prevent pregnancy. Some doctors advise against continuing its use after...

Making a life plan based on your DNA

June 10, 2018 at 5:22 p.m.

Lee and his wife are the first patients of Dan Carlin to have their entire genome mapped. A successful hedge fund manager, Lee has been reading about mapping for some...

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