LIFE IN THE END ZONE

As a brief follow up to her important 2011 book, Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age , the writer Susan Jacoby publish...

In a recent issue of JAMA Internal Medicine , Drs. Sterling and Shaw from Cornell Medical Center make a case for physicians to pay greater...

We’ve heard about older people who don't go out because they're afraid they will fall. A new article in Kaiser Health News reminds...

November is “National Family Caregivers Month.” Upwards of 41 million Americans provide care to someone else (beyond normal childrearing re...

The pharmaceutical firm Biogen issued a stunning press release this week: it would seek FDA approval for its anti-Alzheimer’s drug, Aducan...

I’ve been reading “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming,” an extensively researched account of where we are headed that begins with ...

            The solution to my dilemma was staring me in the face: if I didn’t find the new  developments in medicine of sufficient inter...

There will be no more email messages with requests for data about the median age of legislators in Western European countries. No emails wi...

Every year, about one-quarter of the 1.4 million American nursing home residents are hospitalized. Most of them survive the experience and ...

Several months ago, in writing about Katy Butler’s generally admirable new book, T he Art of Dying Well , I questioned her uncritical accep...