LIFE IN THE END ZONE

A widely accepted view in medical ethics circles is that “substitute decision-makers,” or individuals who are making a medical decision on b...

The Covid epidemic is ramping up again. Cases were up 21 percent over the past week, according to the NY Times . Even more important, so w...

    T his weekend, the  New York Times  uncovered new, seemingly damaging information about nursing homes, this time unrelated to their mish...

               When the FDA approved Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug , aducanumab (brand name Aduhelm) on June 7, the reaction was surprise, d...

  The big news in geriatrics this week was the FDA  approval granted to a drug against Alzheimer's disease, the first new drug in 20 yea...

On January 12, 2006, I launched this blog, which I first called “Perspectives on Aging” and, a number of years later, reincarnated as “Life ...

Now that just under half of older people have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and only about a quarter have not received any vaccinat...

My 95-year-old mother has been using a computer for email since our then teenage son arranged to gift her his old computer so he could get a...

This week brought a medical article worth discussing: the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study of the efficacy ...

              As new cases of Covid-19 fall throughout the world but the US approaches 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 and the world nears 2.5 ...