LIFE IN THE END ZONE

The Medicare Modernization Act of 2004 didn’t really modernize Medicare. It took the important step of creating coverage for prescription d...

When I was in medical school, U.S. hospitals were plagued by only one kind of “superbug” or antibiotic resistant bacteria. Methicillin-Resi...

We’ve known for a long time that breaking a hip can be devastating for an older person. It often leads to a loss of independence and it...

“Disease management” is all the rage. The reason? In the US and other developed countries, most diseases are chronic rather than acute and ...

Even though you think and behave perfectly normally, you might already have Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, you might warrant the label of  “...

Why is it that I still remember that the formula for the volume of a sphere is 4/3π r 3 , which I learned in tenth grade geometry? And why ...