LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Earlier this month, the prestigious  New England Journal of Medicine  took the unprecedented step of publishing a political position paper i...

             A provocative, contrarian position paper (somewhat ostentatiously and bizarrely entitled by its authors a “declaration”) is cre...

            The nation is riveted by President Trump's illness: whether we hate Trump or love him, we want to know how he is faring with...

             For years, older people have been more likely to vote than have their younger counterparts: in the 2016 election , 71 percent ...

             To date, 68,000 residents and staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have died from COVID-19, accounting fo...

Nursing homes are at a crossroads. Unpopular before the pandemic, Covid-19 has brought them to a new low. There was the epidemic itself, whi...

More of my blog posts deal with dementia than with any other subject and the news about Alzheimer’s disease over the years has been large...

Nearly six months into the pandemic, we ought to know the important risk factors for serious illness or death from Covid-19. Whether becaus...

Residents of long-term care facilities in the US have been hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic than have any other group. They have almost ...

For years, Medicare has defined a visit with the doctor, what it calls an "encounter" as comprising the history, physical exam...