LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Last week was a tough week for humankind. My heart goes out to the hundreds of refugees and would-be immigrants who drowned trying to flee o...

There’s nothing much new in the latest edition of the Alzheimer’s Association Alzheimer’s Facts and Figures ,  which came out last month. O...

Kudos to the Huffington Post for running an article about the new report from the FrameWorks Institute, “Gauging Aging: Mapping the Gaps ...

A provocative opinion piece in JAMA Neurology   offers new hope for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. University of California Santa Ba...

There’s been a lot of talk about advance care planning lately, with Ellen Goodman’s Conversation Project, Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal...

You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. You can’t turn back the clock. We have lots of e...

Why is it so hard to get people to stop taking medications--even if they're shown not to work? See forthcoming blog post.

Quercetin hit the airwaves this week, when the media reported that scientists have found "a new class of drugs that dramatically incr...

Can Quercetin Cure Frailty? See this weekend's blog post.

Last fall, the prestigious Institute of Medicine released a “discussion paper” supporting the use of shared decision to improve outcomes i...