LIFE IN THE END ZONE

The saga of the pregnant brain dead woman in Texas, about which I blogged a couple of weeks ago, is now mercifully over. A Texas judge ruled...

“Patients’ costs skyrocket; specialists’ incomes soar,” screams the headline in the lead article in the Sunday New York Times . The thrust ...

“Ariel Sharon dies after 8 years in a coma,” proclaimed one headline.   “Brain dead pregnant woman kept alive” said another . Neither headli...

The NY Times didn’t cover it; neither did the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal. But the BBC made a big deal of the G8 “dementia su...

From both an individual and a public health perspective, frailty is one of the most important conditions affecting older people. Along with ...

How often does anyone come up with an idea for improving medical care that does good and saves money at the same time? Not very often. Even ...

Physicians are not known for their communication skills. Despite sessions in medical school and during residency addressing topics such as “...

My mother will turn 88 in a few weeks. According to the definition of successful aging put forward by Rowe and Kahn nearly 16 years ago, sh...

The remembrances of JFK this week focused, understandably, on his great promise and how an assassin’s bullet burst the bubble of optimism an...

The 1.4 million people who live in nursing homes are among the most vulnerable, powerless individuals in American society.  They are old (m...