January 06, 2012

Is Heavy Metal Hip?

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Type “metal-on-metal hip replacement” into your favorite search engine, and you will bring up dozens of hits from personal injury lawyers. T...
November 15, 2011

What's $3 Billion Anyway?

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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the fifth largest drug company in the world, just settled with the Department of Justice for a cool $3 billion. It im...
October 07, 2011

Is the Hospital Bad for Your Health?

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Decreasing the risk of readmission to a hospital is a hot area of research. It has been a target for quality improvement ever since a study ...
September 26, 2011

Is the Fountain of Youth Spouting Contaminated Water?

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A few days ago, the prestigious biomedical journal Nature reported that the water in the Fountain of Youth was contaminated. While the artic...
June 30, 2011

The Way Forward

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The rising cost of the Medicare program has suddenly gone from the concern of a handful of Cassandras like the distinguished biomedical ethi...
April 22, 2011

New Cancer Treatments: Hype or Hope?

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If you are a man, you have a 1 in 6 chance of developing prostate cancer during your lifetime. The good news is that most men will die with ...
March 25, 2011

Priming the Pump

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More bad news about dementia in America was released recently by the Alzheimer’s Association in its report, “ Alzheimer’s Facts and Figures ...
February 28, 2011

Aging in Black and White

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“Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age,” a new book by Susan Jacoby, is a tour de force. If you can get beyond the strid...
January 02, 2011

New Wine from NAPA?

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In a rare moment of bipartisanship, Congress unanimously approved the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. The media called it “historic legisl...
December 06, 2010

News of a Life in Review

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The father of modern geriatric medicine, Robert Butler, died last summer at the age of 83. His contributions to the study of aging and to th...