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Taking the anxiety out of treating anxiety disorders

Bob Butler, the founding director of the National Institute on Aging, once declared, "If exercise could be packaged in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation." Now, almost 50 years later, scientists have discovered that it's powerful medicine in the battle against cancer -- even in its late stages.

Q: I read a report that says neither exercise nor mindfulness has cognitive benefits as you get older. Is this true? —Joey T., Boston A: I'm glad you asked about that study recently published in JAMA. Researchers tracked four groups of 65- to 84-year-olds who had some concerns about their cognitive abilities for 18

Handshakes are a social convention that has been used for at least 3,000 years, according to historians who found a ninth century B.C. relief that shows the kings of Babylonia and Assyria shaking hands. But if your hands are shaking -- that's quite something else.

Elizabeth Taylor was diagnosed in 2004 with heart failure and died from the disease seven years later at 79. Around 6.2 million Americans share that diagnosis -- and 870,000 more folks are diagnosed with heart failure annually.