LIFE IN THE END ZONE

It was really outrageous. It sheds light on our crazy health insurance system—and it is a warning to anyone considering go...

The data are out : in 2017, the opioid epidemic took even more American lives than in any previous year: a record 72,000 people died of an ...

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...