LIFE IN THE END ZONE

A whopping 86 million Americans are family caregivers for an adult with significant health problems, according to a   new report . Untraine...

An update from the Dartmouth Atlas last week reports that we are making excellent progress in how we care for people at the very end of lif...

An exciting movement known as "culture change" is sweeping through nursing homes. It seeks to transform nursing homes into homey e...

We've known for years that cancer patients think their life expectancy is considerably greater than it really is--and that their oncolog...

After a one-year hiatus, I am returning to blogging. "Perspectives on Aging" has been reborn as "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 ...