LIFE IN THE END ZONE

The July issue of Health Affairs, a leading health policy journal, is devoted to “advanced illness and end-of-life care.” While most of the...

The last time that NIH requested a review of the data on preventing cognitive decline in old age (including Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzh...

Last week, I praised MedPAC for devoting an entire chapter of its June report to Congress to strategies for decreasing transfers from nursi...

With the Senate’s attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act temporarily on hold, I turned my attention to the MedPAC report se...

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...