LIFE IN THE END ZONE

One of the most illuminating and insightful articles I ever read was written by historian of medicine David Rosner. Entitled “Health Care f...

With all the attention paid to the opioid epidemic, another drug overuse problem has gone relatively unnoticed--the widespread use of antip...

Last week I saw the play “Ripcord” at the Huntington Theater in Boston, a hilarious comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, and one of the rare pla...

One of the major mile posts in biomedical ethics was the passage of legislation that today’s medical residents—and I daresay most Americans...

The editor-in-chief of one of my favorite health news sources, Kaiser Health News , recently published her first book—for over twenty years...

This month, the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on the health care system, released a report on ...

In a provocative piece in the NY Times last week, science writer Gina Kolata suggests that the long term care insurance industry may be in...

I n the sixties, physicians routinely prescribed bed rest for patients who had suffered a heart attack. Then along came the recognition tha...