Not only is Thanksgiving coming up in the United States, but November 24 is Family Health History Day. If you are getting together with your family this Thanksgiving, this can be a great time to learn some answers to those questions that you’ve encountered on medical forms in the past but maybe were uncertain of the answer to. It is always better to know the answer to questions as best you can rather than guess!

Of course, we are not asking you to pull out a health history questionnaire form over Thanksgiving dinner! But if you are wondering about health his

The holidays can be stressful as it is—Gerry wrote the other day about mental health during the holiday season. Another challenge many of us struggle with around the holidays is how to fit our lives with chronic disease into the stress, food, and busyness of the season. Here are some tips on how to make sure you take care of yourself during the holiday season if you are living with chronic illness.

Keep up on your medications. Yeah, it sucks to have to stop at the pharmacy before the festivities start, but just think of how much better it’ll be then feeling bad, or stressing about runn