LIFE IN THE END ZONE

This past week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article titled, “The Hottest Hair Color of the Moment is…Gray.” Granted, it was in the “st...

As an ever-growing percentage of Americans live to extreme old age, with a correspondingly large proportion surviving long enough to become...

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...