LIFE IN THE END ZONE

For the last 20 years, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice—it’s added a few words to its name over time—has pro...

Not quite "Our Bodies, Ourselves," but the new report from the Dartmouth Atlas is all about the older person's experience of...

The Framingham Heart Study has been ongoing since 1948 and it continues to provide answers, or at least insights, into all kinds of importa...

What do Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Tennessee, Washington, Missouri, Nevada, and Ohio have in common? No, they're not the states...

A New Use for Ambulances--see Post on Sunday

Can calculus help identify when it's time to change the goals of care? See post on Sunday.

When I wanted to figure out whether it was time to replace our 2004 Toyota Camry, which runs beautifully and is the most comfortable and re...

We have a Model 88 radio on our kitchen table that we must have had for 20 years. It’s one of those devices where you adjust the volume by ...

In 2015, Americans spent an estimated $114 billion on “anti-aging” products. That’s almost one-fourth of the entire Medicare budget. What’s...

Nearly twenty years ago, the Pioneer Network   launched what came to be called the nursing home culture change movement. The idea was terri...