LIFE IN THE END ZONE

From a mathematical perspective, adding and subtracting are equivalent:  with addition, you perform an operation on two positive numbers; w...

Music decreases pain after surgery--see upcoming blog post.

This week’s JAMA included an article  that describes prescription drug use in the US and compares current usage to the pattern twelve year...

I’ve always liked the idea of a geriatric managed care organization. I liked it back when they were called Medicare HMOs (after they were f...

The palliative care community has been rallying to defend itself this past week in the aftermath of a scathing attack in the New England Jo...

Five years ago, The Economist commissioned a report on the quality of death throughout the world. Now, the magazine has issued an all new r...

The best part of the WHO report, “ World Report on Ageing and Health ,” is the stories. After reading a long litany of the weaknesses of th...

I stumbled on it purely by accident. I was looking for a picture to illustrate "diversity" for a talk I am preparing, and I seeme...