Mandy Oaklander

Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. She writes and edits health news.

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Your Home Blood Pressure Monitor Might Be Way Off

Up to 15% of home machines give the wrong readings, study finds

By Mandy Oaklander

Gluten Still Stumps Scientists

This is your gut on gluten

By Mandy Oaklander

This Free App Knows Exactly What's in Your Food

A new food database three years in the making is trying to change the way you eat.The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today launched EWG’s Food Scores: Rate Your Plate. The website rates more than 80,000...

By Mandy Oaklander

Autistic Kids May Benefit From This Kind of Parent-Led Therapy

Parents can learn how to give effective therapy to their children with autism, a new study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry finds.Researchers at Stanford University looked at a type of therapy called...

By Mandy Oaklander

Here's the Good-Bad News About Trans Fats

We still need to slash trans fat consumption, a new study finds

By Mandy Oaklander

Should I Eat Cheese?

Welcome to Should I Eat This?—our weekly poll of five experts who answer nutrition questions that gnaw at you. 4/5 experts say yes. Science types are a rational folk. But dangle a block of cheese...

By Mandy Oaklander

Guess What Drugs Are In Your Seafood

There's a veritable fish pharmacy in your freezer

By Mandy Oaklander

This Kind of Tea Lowers Blood Pressure Naturally

The best brew for your heart

By Mandy Oaklander

You'll Never Guess What Chia Seeds Can Do To Your Esophagus

How to eat the superfood safely

By Mandy Oaklander

Study Yields Insight Into Gamblers' Brains

New research presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress in Berlin sheds light on what happens in the brains of gamblers. Pathological gambling is a difficult condition to classify. Though the Diagnostic and Statistical...

By Mandy Oaklander

Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

The link between soda and telomere length

By Mandy Oaklander

How Jet Lag Can Contribute to Obesity

Changing your circadian clock messes with your microbes

By Mandy Oaklander

Should I Eat Eggs?

Welcome to Should I Eat This?—our weekly poll of five experts who answer the food questions really gnawing at you. There’s a lot of debate about eggs. While eggs provide protein and important vitamins, some...

By Mandy Oaklander

Can Low-T Therapy Promote Prostate Cancer?

New rat research raises health questions for researcher

By Mandy Oaklander

How Race Affects Diabetes Care—and Leads to Amputations

Black diabetics are much more likely to face amputation

By Mandy Oaklander

Fecal Transplants May Soon Be Available in a Pill

When you have Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), a potentially life-endangering infection characterized by diarrhea, you’ll try anything to cure it—even a fecal transplant, which studies have shown to be 90% effective against the infection. But...

By Mandy Oaklander

Men's Bone Health Is Largely Ignored

Why men need to start saving their skeletons

By Mandy Oaklander

Here's Why Women Should Avoid Fried Food Before Pregnancy

So much for those burger-and-fries cravings.A new study published in Diabetologia found that women who eat more fried food before conceiving are at greater risk for developing gestational diabetes—the kind that starts or is first...

By Mandy Oaklander

Age-Proof Your Muscles

New research pinpoints the ideal moves to protect the male body as it ages

By Mandy Oaklander

Grapefruit Juice May Be As Effective as Diabetes Drugs

A new mice study suggests that grapefruit juice might be just as effective as the type 2 diabetes drug, metformin, at lowering blood glucose. The research, which was funded by the California Grapefruit Growers Cooperative,...

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