Outlook issue: Summer 2016

  • Researcher in motion: Community engagement is all in a day's play for Denise Wilfley, PhD, center, an advocate for evidence-based weight management strategies involving patients, families, physicians and communities.

    America’s growing problem

    Summer 2016 | By Deb Parker & Brenda Murphy-Niederkorn

    Averting the lifelong health risks and spiraling social costs of childhood obesity

  • Rewiring the body

    Summer 2016 | By Deb Parker & Kristina Sauerwein

    Severing the brain’s critical link to a peripheral nerve can render an arm useless. Pioneering surgeries reroute neural impulses and redefine hope for paralysis.

  • Reconditioned … lungs?

    Summer 2016 | By Kristina Sauerwein

    They’re among the most difficult transplants. An innovative approach is increasing the options.