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Lisa Davis is Deputy Editor at Reader’s Digest magazine, where she covers health and medicine. She’s been on that beat for nearly 25 years as a writer and editor for newspapers, magazines, and books, giving readers advice and information they need for a healthy life, along with glimpses into the most exciting advances coming out of research labs, without sacrificing scientific accuracy. With an abiding and driving interest in how science is done, Lisa has partnered with some of the foremost research institutions in the country, including M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Yale Preventive Research Center, to develop reader-friendly studies and projects, producing new insights into common, everyday health concerns. In her Living Healthy blog, she offers her take on the day’s health news.

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June 5, 2009, 05:03 PM It's Enough to Make Your Stomach Hurt By Lisa Davis
Researchers at Digestive Disease Week 2009—a gathering of gastroenterologists, liver specialists, and others who focus on the region of your insides that handles food—reported yesterday that using some popular heartburn drugs may raise the

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May 13, 2009, 05:26 PM Geeky Shoes and Other Cool Stuff By Lisa Davis
My feet hurt, more or less all the time. This is because I have absurdly high arches, which are fine on a Barbie doll but a design flaw in an actual human. Not many people have that particular problem, but a whole lot of you have some other foot complaint.

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April 30, 2009, 11:37 AM Swine flu: An expert gives his perspective By Lisa Davis
With the World Health Organization raising its global pandemic alert level, and its Director-General advising all countries to immediately activate pandemic preparedness plans, it's hard to judge exactly how concerned people should be about swine flu—or

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April 27, 2009, 03:43 PM Four steps that can help protect against swine flu By Lisa Davis
It's too early to know exactly how big this outbreak of swine flu will become. It's very strange to watch something this potentially dangerous and fast-moving unfold, and I think it's caught the attention of a lot of people. This morning, my across-the-hall

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April 6, 2009, 01:29 PM Two (and a half) personality traits that keep you alive longer By Lisa Davis
For years, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine's New England Centenarian Study have been paying close attention to a group of very long-lived people-subjects have to be at least 100 (or 102 for women), or the sibling, spouse, or child

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March 27, 2009, 11:48 AM It hurts to talk about it By Lisa Davis
Yow. I mean...Ow.

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March 19, 2009, 03:35 PM PSA Tests Fall Short By Lisa Davis
Talk about coincidence. Two major studies out this week drive home the point we made in "What's Wrong With Cancer Tests," the cover story in this month's issue. In that piece, award-winning writer Shannon Brownlee makes the startling and discomforting

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March 11, 2009, 05:09 PM The Shocking Truth About Cancer Tests By Lisa Davis
Here's an unabashed plug for a feature in our April issue—already in your hands if you're a subscriber, and coming to newsstands any day now if you're not. The article is called "What's Wrong With Cancer Tests," and it raises some very unsettling questions

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