LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Social Security and Medicare, along with other government agencies, understandably worry about fraud. But sometimes this worry gets out of ...

The United States produces outstanding reports about just about any health-related topic you can imagine. Some of the reports are produced ...

The " End of Life in Very Old Age ” study presents a fascinating glimpse into the lives and views of America’s oldest old. An ancillar...

Paula Span of the New York Times did the geriatric community a great service this past week by highlighting a change in coverage for physi...

Last week I posted the first half of a Q&A with Roz Chast, author of the wonderful book, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant...

Roz Chast first published  Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?  in May of 2014. I thought it was one of the most honest, trenc...

A new study published in Nature offers some potentially good news. The researchers report that a monoclonal antibody given intravenously t...