Today more than 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Age doesn’t rule here on the North Shore.

This quiz is taken from “Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly” by Catherine Mayer (Vermilion, £12.99).

Remember your cold from last winter—the congested runny nose, headache, sore, scratchy throat, and intolerable cough?

Beth Aldrich’s new book “Real Moms Love to Eat” promises to tell us “How to conduct a love affair with food, lose weight and feel fabulous.”

Beth Aldrich’s new book “Real Moms Love to Eat” promises to tell us “How to conduct a love affair with food, lose weight and feel fabulous.”

Imagine calling your doctor in the middle of the night, getting an appointment the next day, and even having your physician accompany you on a brisk walk or a trip to the grocery store to jump-start your personalized wellness plan.

Having a baby? Have to undergo surgery (boo) or another procedure?

You can return shoes that don’t fit. You can sell a car you don’t like. But if you can’t find a physician you feel comfortable with, the consequences are more serious.

How happy are you?  Please rate your happiness below to help us determine the overall North Shore Happiness Score.

“For the majority of people, alcohol is used safely without apparent consequences,” says Advocate Lutheran General Hospital’s Dr. Lara Segalite.

One night a mom named Val was at a birthday party—a fun girls' night out—drinking wine and dancing to music and laughing. When suddenly her phone rang.

Val and her dorm-living college son had quite the experience with bedbugs.

The kids are back in school, and the weather’s changing, which means our moods and equilibrium are a little off.

For years, the focus has been on early detection to improve the cure rate of breast cancer.

We love a study that says chocolate is good for your health.

We’ve long heard that there are no “bad” foods, but researchers at Harvard Medical School might not agree.

Increased bone fractures, incontinence, and now breast cancer can be attributed to vitamin D insufficiency.

Are you one of the 25 million Americans who suffer from venous reflux disease, which commonly appears in the form of varicose veins?

Summer is the time to relax and take a break from life’s frenetic pace. But for our kids, summer is often the time to “get ahead.”

We bet your summertime plans include swimming, biking and a little gardening.