LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Earlier this week, the New York Times featured an article entitled Meet Zora the Robot Caregiver . Zora, like her Japanese predecessors, ...

For the past couple of weeks, I have not found any burning geriatric issues to report on. So instead, I will discuss a burning moral issue,...

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...