More and more singers like Adele are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. Some voice specialists suggest that vocal burnout could be cured by changing how singers sing - using an old singing method that is easy on the throat.

Real Simple magazine includes health and wellness information in each of their monthly issues. Topics covered include how to manage your own personal health information, compare costs, make sense of medicare, and whether the latest popular health craze is worth trying.

The Center for Inquiry suggests that the National Geographic Society should reconsider publishing their books and magazines about “natural healing remedies”. In a review of the NGS publications on these remedies, the Center for Inquiry finds that they are full of claims that lack scientific evidence, are inconsistent and internally contradictory, and don’t reach even minimal scientific standards.

Consumer Reports questions the purity of bottled water in a special investigation. Where bottled water comes from, how it is tested, and how safe tap water is around the United States.

The Essential Guide to Medicare offers information on Medigap, Part C (Medicare Advantage plans), and Part D (prescription coverage). This guide also offers resources to find help understanding and enrolling in Medicare, as well as types of financial assistance available.

The Essential Guide to Medicare offers information on enrolling in Medicare, what it covers and what it doesn’t cover, choosing the right coverage, and what Parts A & B (Original Medicare) provide and cost. Also, a short history of Medicare. Next week will cover Part C (Medicare Advantage) and Part D.

A New Yorker article looking at the dangers of noise pollution to humans and other species. Includes information about the painful hearing condition called “hyperacusis”, methods to measure noise, and ways to reduce this auditory environmental pollution.

The Diabetic Living summer 2019 issue. Articles include helpful information about how to appeal a medical insurance claim denial, diabetes toolkits that can be delivered direct to home without the hassle of insurance or prescriptions, how to find the right footwear if you have neuropathy, and how the "Orange is the New Black” star Lea DeLaria manages her Type 2 diabetes.

The actress Selma Blair is bringing new attention to the autoimmune disorder Multiple Sclerosis after being diagnosed in October 2018. Also articles outlining the symptoms and treatment for MS, as well as information about the difference between relapsing-remitting MS and secondary progressive MS.

Consumer Reports looks at a new type of plant-based burger that tastes and has a texture more like beef than traditional veggie burgers do. Beyond and Impossible burgers are being marketed in grocery stores and restaurants as healthier for humans and better for the environment.