LIFE IN THE END ZONE

The following review appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday. It's perhaps a bit overstated, but positive nonetheless. In The Denial o...

Last week, Dartmouth ’s Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences released the latest version of its “atlas” of medical care in the U.S. ...

Three months ago I wrote a column arguing that in the U.S. we over-use donepezil (Aricept), a drug widely touted as helpful in early Alzheim...

It’s been known for some time that skinny rats live longer than fat rats. They have to be extremely svelte for this effect to kick in: labor...

Here's an interview Newsweek did a few days ago.

The latest statistics on life expectancy were released by the National Center for Health Statistics in January, 2006 and they show continued...

Sometimes I wonder what disease will get me in the end: statistically speaking, it’s a toss up between cancer and heart disease. But I worry...

Fidelity Investments just released a report estimating what the average 65-year old couple can expect to pay in medical expenses during the...

You may never have heard of a national bioethics commission. At best, such commissions can perform a valuable synthetic function, summarizin...

Last week, President Bush released his proposed budget for 2007, which included $36 billion cuts in Medicare spending over 5 years. The resp...