The LIVESTRONG.COM Blog

As you probably know, LIVESTRONG.COM has a team of experts who share their insights with our community. Among them is Dr. Laurie Marbas, a family medicine physician and United States Air Force Officer.

Her professional experience includes patient care in Texas, Virginia and in the Middle East when deployed with the USAF. Her special interests include sports medicine, breast and skin cancer, and health and fitness education. In addition to her work, Dr. Laurie is the mother active children.

Somehow, in between her work and her family, Dr. Laurie finds time to answer health-related questions from our members in a recurring feature on our forums that we call “Ask Dr. Laurie.” Check out her latest batch of answers here, and even post a question of your own that she may answer next time!

Hi everyone!

You might have thought our team would take a break after last week’s round of fixes, but there’s no stopping the LIVESTRONG.COM crew! We rolled out another smattering of upgrades and fixes this week; here’s a sampling:

1. We’ve made LIVESTRONG Groups better than ever. They now sport an easier-to-read three-column layout. You can also post links to other sites and resources into your group entries with a really slick new tool that I think you’ll love. Groups also load much, much faster than ever before. Explore, and enjoy!

2. You might have already noted the new search bar in the header that we released last week. Now, we’ve refined search — especially “Member Search” — so that the results are even more accurate.

3. We’ve made several bug fixes on The Daily Plate. Some members were having issues viewing their weight charts; viewing date ranges wasn’t working properly. That should now be corrected. We’ve also implemented some new measures to cut down on new duplicates entering the database. And today, we’re introducing “Locked” food items. When we independently verify the accuracy of food data, we’ll mark the food as such and prevent it from being edited later. While most food items have a button to “Edit this item,” locked foods – like this one — don’t.

4. Beyond these changes, we’ve improved the layout of some articles, improved our video experience, added an “Experts” module to our homepage, and more. 

Take a look around the site to experience the changes, and let us know what you think!