Living Well

Is your rheumatoid arthritis interfering with intimacy, family fun and friendships? Here’s how to fight joint pain, fatigue and irritability and ensure good times.
Dealing with a long-term, chronic disease like psoriasis is more than just a physical challenge. It can also test you emotionally.
Certain challenges every college student expects to take on: juggling a full class schedule with a full social life, deciding on a major, changing your mind and deciding on a different major…but learning you have psoriatic arthritis? Not exactly something Vanessa Shortley expected to confront while studying journalism five years ago. Yet, rather than buckle under a daunting diagnosis, she put her sleuthing skills to work, sussing out the who, what, where, when, how and why of her condition, so that she could not only deal with it—but defy it. Today, the 27-year-old editor of a weekly newspaper, Vanessa shares her secrets for surmounting the personal and professional difficulties posed by psoriatic arthritis.
Sometimes it’s the small steps that make the biggest impact on your physical and emotional health. What are you waiting for? Read on for some quick and simple ways to feel better today!
<em>Survivor </em> stars Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca share survival tips for making a relationship work despite cancer.
Actress Cheryl Ladd opens up about her mother’s rheumatoid arthritis and the life lessons she’s learned along the way.
Five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres reveals the easy and land-based exercises that have helped her beat joint pain.