Janice M. Horowitz
Janice M. Horowitz covered health for Time magazine for more than two decades. She created and hosted the public radio segment, Dueling Docs: The Cure to Contradictory Medicine and has contributed to The Economist, Allure, The New York Times, Newsweek and PBS's Next Avenue. She is the author of Health Your Self: What's Really Driving Your Care and How to Take Charge.
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A few months ago, I couldn’t find my cell phone. I called again and again from our landline. I never heard it ring. Hours later, I found where I’d left it: in the refrigerator. My husband and daughter thought this was hysterical. I found it scary. Was I having early cognitive decline? -
Our hearing is a surprisingly vulnerable sense. One you’ll need to take special care of.
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My daughter, who survived on salty, cheddar-dusted Goldfish crackers, now devours kimchi when she craves a snack. She may be onto something.
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I’ve used AI for practical matters - buying a dishwasher, planning a trip - but late one night I dipped into a different dimension: Chat, the therapist. I’d been worrying about a text message I sent that landed all wrong. I had no one to obsess with, so I asked AI for support.
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Former health journalist Janice Horowitz, focusing on thyroid cancer, discusses how some cancers are so slow-growing — what doctors call indolent — and may be better off left alone.
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I was meeting an old friend I hadn't seen in months. Walking toward her, everything looked right: the hair, the outfit, the bag slung over her shoulder.
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A few months ago, a blood test showed I had high cholesterol. My doctor suggested statins - cholesterol lowering drugs. I immediately snapped into healthy skeptic mode. And I hope you do the same.
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The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the mouth may be the window to your body.
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A record 58% of us take vitamins, minerals, gummies. This sounds like a wonderful statistic. It suggests that most Americans really care about their health. Enough to shell out $60 billion dollars a year for nutritional supplements. Wonderful, yes, but also somewhat troubling.
