Someone special to one of us just marked a big, round-numbered birthday.
On Your Health
A year older, a year better
This time last year, things looked pretty grim for my parents.
Empowering patients – and avoiding ‘medical gaslighting’
Have you ever walked out of an appointment with a health care provider and thought, “I’m not sure the doctor heard me”? Or, “What, exactly, was I just told?” Communication between physicians and patients has always been difficult. On one side, you have a professional trained in a complicated and technical field that’s knee-deep in […]
For Alzheimer’s, drugs may not be the answer
The search for a pharmaceutical “magic bullet” is something that’s hard-wired both into our culture and our science.
When death teaches us about life
If I’m being honest, I probably didn’t have much business being at Jack’s funeral.
The giver who keeps on giving
Stan Newman remembers Dec. 7, 1941, if not like yesterday, certainly more vividly than most days that date back eight decades ago.
