LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Last week’s British Medical Journal draws attention to the growing literature confirming that the intensive care unit (ICU) is a perilous e...

Increasingly, research studies published in major medical journals conclude the same way: with a plea for more studies. The writers say t...

                         Articles in medical journals tend to pay scant attention to the role of nurses in treating illness—or for that m...

For middle-aged mice, these are the best of times. Scientists now understand genetic factors that lead to the development of disease, disab...

T he headlines this week—aside from the hurricane, the typhoon, and the charge of sexual misconduct in the Supreme Court nominee—are all ab...

British researchers recently projected care needs of the very old.  We would do well to pay attention to their analysis—or, if we think Ame...

For years, I’ve been arguing that frail older patients are often better off being treated for acute medical problems at home than in the ...

Think “A Man Called Ove,” Fredrik Backman’s bittersweet novel about a lonely man who tries repeatedly and unsuccessfully to commit suicide...

Hospice is widely touted as the best form of care near the end of life. As a result, the proportion of people who are enrolled in hospice a...

The most promising treatment of Alzheimer’s disease to date uses monoclonal antibodies to rid the brain of amyloid plaques. These plaques a...