LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Imagine two versions of a medication that are essentially identical but one costs 100 times as much as the other. Using the more expensive ...

Riddle: What test is easy, fast, reproducible, cheap, can be done in any physician’s office and is a good predictor of mortality? Answe...

When I was growing up, my mother taught me that comic books were junk; they were not “real” books; they were worse than worthless. So I did...

The US Census Bureau released a new report this week about our aging population. Actually, it came out with 4 separate estimates, each bas...

Just over a year ago, physician-researcher Harlan Krumholz created a stir by describing the “post-hospital syndrome. ” Some patients, he ar...