This Special Health Report, Diseases of the Heart, brings you important information on various conditions that affect the heart, along with their causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and prevention. You'll learn about major cardiovascular problems such as hardening of the arteries, peripheral artery disease, coronary artery disease, and more. You'll get details on atrial fibrillation, tachycardia, valve problems, aneurysms, and infections and inflammation of the heart, as well as rare conditions and congenital defects.

Diseases of the Heart

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Julie Corliss

Deepak L. Bhatt MD MPH FACC FAHA FSCAI FESC

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Harvard Health Publishing

Yoga is more than just a workout. It's actually a combination of four components: postures (like tree pose), breathing practices, deep relaxation, and meditation that can transform your health on many different levels. To show you how easy yoga can be and how you can reap the many health benefits, Harvard Medical School experts created An Introduction to Yoga.

An Introduction to Yoga: Improve your strength, balance, flexibility, and well-being

Michele Stanten

Lauren E. Elson MD

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa PhD

Exercise & Fitness

Midlife can be a woman's halftime celebration. Not only can it be an opportunity to reflect on and rejoice in the life you've lived, but it is also a good time to plan your strategy for the future. A Guide to Women's Health: Fifty and forward will help you determine the conditions for which you are at greatest risk and do your best to avoid them. It will also help you to better manage chronic conditions that may erode your quality of life, and to deal with physical changes that are more bothersome than serious. It is designed to give you the information to make the choices today that will ensure you the best health possible tomorrow.

A Guide to Women's Health: Fifty and Forward

Hope Ricciotti MD

Beverly Merz

This report focuses primarily on osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis, which affects 27 million Americans. Many people believe it's a crippling and inevitable part of growing old. But things are changing. Treatments are better, and plenty of people age well without much arthritis. If you have osteoarthritis, you can take steps to protect your joints, reduce discomfort, and improve mobility, all of which are detailed in this Special Health Report, Living Well with Osteoarthritis: A guide to keeping your joints healthy. If you don't have osteoarthritis, the report offers strategies for preventing it.

Living Well with Osteoarthritis: A guide to keeping your joints healthy

Robert H. Shmerling MD

Lynne Christensen

Living wills and health care proxies, documents known as advance care directives give, you a voice in decisions about your medical care at the end of life. Without these documents, choices may be left up to a doctor or a judge, someone who does not know your values, beliefs, or preferences. This Special Health Report, Advance Care Planning: A guide to advance directives, living wills, and other strategies for communicating health care preferences, will help you plan ahead and create legal documents to guide decision makers at this important time.

Advance Care Planning: A guide to advance directives, living wills, and other strategies for communicating health care preferences

Nancy Monson

Francesca Coltrera

Muriel Gillick MD

Charles Sabatino JD

Erica Wood JD

Each year, osteoporosis contributes to more than 2 million bone fractures in the United States. This Special Health Report, Osteoporosis: A guide to prevention and treatment, can help you keep your bones strong and healthy, and avoid fractures. It describes how you can prevent and treat osteoporosis through diet, exercise, and medications. You'll also find advice on choosing a calcium supplement, tips on fall-proofing your home, and help with putting together a personalized plan to preserve or boost your bone strength.

Osteoporosis: A guide to prevention and treatment

Stephanie Watson

David M. Slovik MD

Daniel Pendick

Fatigue is a symptom, not a disease, and it's experienced differently by different people. Fatigue from stress or lack of sleep usually subsides after a good night s rest, while other fatigue is more persistent and may be debilitating even after restful sleep. Harvard s Special Health Report Boosting Your Energy provides advice and information from world-renowned medical experts that can help you discover the cause of your fatigue and find the right treatment or lifestyle changes.

Boosting Your Energy: How to jump-start your natural energy and fight fatigue

Anthony L. Komaroff MD

Successful weight loss depends largely on becoming more aware of your behaviors and starting to change them. Instead of relying on willpower, this process demands skill power. This Special Health Report, Lose Weight and Keep It Off, offers a range of solutions that have worked for many people and can be tailored to your needs.

Lose Weight and Keep It Off: Smart approaches to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight

W. Scott Butsch MD MSC

Karen Ansel MS RDN CDN

Diets & Weight Loss

The numbers are shocking. Just two out of 10 American adults meet recommended levels of physical activity. Nearly three out of 10 Americans ages 6 and older admit they aren't active at all, despite reams of research proving that exercise is a powerful preventive, and sometimes an antidote, for disability and illness. This Special Health Report, Workout Workbook: 9 complete workouts to help you get fit and healthy, features nine excellent workouts that will challenge your body and spirit in a variety of ways while warding off boredom.

Workout Workbook: 9 complete workouts to help you get fit and healthy

In this Special Health Report, Harvard Medical School doctors share a six step program that can yield important and lasting results. Together these Super 6 can strengthen your intellectual prowess, promote your powers of recall, and protect the brain-based skills that are essential for full, rewarding, and independent living. From simple and specific changes in eating to ways to challenge your brain, this is guidance that will pay dividends for you and your future.

A Guide to Cognitive Fitness: 6 steps to optimizing brain function and improving brain health

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD

Mental Health

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