LIFE IN THE END ZONE

This week revealed the long-awaited results of a trial of the “ Serious Illness Program ,” the meticulously designed and carefully studied ...

What Katy Butler gets spectacularly right in her new book, The Art of Dying Well , is that if we want life's last chapter to be a good ...

I confess that I tremendously enjoyed The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2009).  It wasn’t profound ...

I haven’t written a blog post in a while. Not because I’ve been ill or travelling, but simply because I couldn’t find anything I was intere...

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, ...