LIFE IN THE END ZONE

A chest CT scan showing what is almost certainly lung cancer: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will decide soon whether to c...

Some time in the next 6 years the world will experience an unprecedented cataclysm. Not a tsunami or an epidemic or a large scale war, alth...

See Sunday's post for a discussion of the coming cataclysm.

The new IOM report, “Dying in America,” is a masterpiece.  Written in the matter-of-fact language typical of non-partisan reports by commi...

On September 17, the Institute of Medicine will release its report, "Approaching Death: Addressing End of Life Issues," which wi...

A startling new project was unveiled last Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay area. No, not Apple’s iPhone 6 or its watch, but the Palo Alto L...

For an update on plans to locate the Fountain of Youth, see my next post.

A buoyantly optimistic Paul Krugman proclaimed recently that Medicare’s woes are over—after a long period of seemingly relentlessly rising...

Here's an interesting graph from the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation's recent report on out of pocket health care spending by Medicare b...

What drove me crazy about practicing medicine in a nursing home wasn’t the patients, although with their many medical problems often includ...