
What can magnesium do for you and how much do you need?

Dry socket: Preventing and treating a painful condition that can occur after tooth extraction

What happens during sleep 鈥� and how to improve it

How is metastatic prostate cancer detected and treated in men over 70?

Could biofeedback help your migraines?

Plantar warts: Options for treating this common foot condition

Cancer survivorship: What comes next after treatment

Nutritional yeast: Does this savory, vegan seasoning pack a nutritional punch?

Salmonella is sneaky: Watch out

Two jobs may lower the odds of dying from Alzheimer's disease 鈥� but why?

Peter Wehrwein
Contributor, 天博体育
Peter Wehrwein was the editor of the 天博体育 Letter from 1999 to May 2012. He is currently a freelance writer and editor, and contributes to the 天博体育 blog and Before editing the Health Letter, he was editor of the Harvard Public Health Review and director of development communications at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to working at Harvard, Wehrwein was a reporter for newspapers in Albany, N.Y., Union City, N.J., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Big Lake, Minn. He has written for Newsweek, The Lancet, Managed Care, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Wehrwein was a journalism fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993-94. He earned a B.A. in history from Yale University in 1980.
Posts by Peter Wehrwein

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Switching to generic Lipitor

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Do you want to see your doctor鈥檚 medical notes?

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Obama going gray: Do presidents age faster?
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Propofol: the drug that killed Michael Jackson

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Astounding increase in antidepressant use by Americans

Heart Health
MRIs may be safe for people with pacemakers and ICDs

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How to survive a tornado

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Kate Middleton鈥檚 pre-royal weight loss: stress, 鈥渂rideorexia,鈥� or the Dukan Diet?

Exercise & Fitness
How Boston Marathon runners can avoid hitting the wall

Heart Health
Statin use is up, cholesterol levels are down: Are Americans鈥� hearts benefiting?

Child & Teen Health
Play Ball: Will new rules for bats make baseball safer?
Cancer
Radiation risk in Japan: an update
Cancer
Radiation risk in Japan: understanding radiation measurements and putting them in perspective

Cancer
Potassium iodide pills and prevention of thyroid cancer from Japanese nuclear power plant
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Oscar or not, The King鈥檚 Speech teaches about stuttering
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Top 10 health stories of 2010
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Echinacea for colds
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The safety of painkillers
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Vitamin D recommendations
Cancer
Screening for lung cancer with CT scans
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Halloween candy
Heart Health
Stem cell progress: Turning skin cells into heart cells
Heart Health
Kiss-kiss CPR: The mouth-to-mouth part may not be needed
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Naps for young doctors

What can magnesium do for you and how much do you need?

Dry socket: Preventing and treating a painful condition that can occur after tooth extraction

What happens during sleep 鈥� and how to improve it

How is metastatic prostate cancer detected and treated in men over 70?

Could biofeedback help your migraines?

Plantar warts: Options for treating this common foot condition

Cancer survivorship: What comes next after treatment

Nutritional yeast: Does this savory, vegan seasoning pack a nutritional punch?

Salmonella is sneaky: Watch out

Two jobs may lower the odds of dying from Alzheimer's disease 鈥� but why?