LIFE IN THE END ZONE

Exactly 79 years ago today, Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, an American naval base on Oahu, Hawaii, catapulting the U.S. into World War...

On November 9, we learned that the preliminary data from the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial are very promising; exactly one week lat...

Last Monday, the public woke to the news that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, which has been undergoing testing since...

For over, 50 years, epidemiologists had been expecting “the big one.” Like earthquakes in California, influenza epidemics have become an ine...

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...