LIFE IN THE END ZONE

For the last 15 years, physicians have raised questions about the efficacy of artificial nutrition—tube-feeding—in individuals with advanced...

The battle over whether contraception is a basic benefit that must be included in any American health care plan has been called a lot of thi...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

“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...