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In attempting to explain how physicians in my field of geriatric medicine think through clinical cases, I have come to realize over the course of my training that, although the prevailing schemas of c...

The trees have become a sought-after backdrop for social media posts, holiday cards and even marriage proposals.

This Medical News article discusses challenges and progress toward more widespread geriatrics training in medical school, residency, and health systems.

This Viewpoint proposes reform of the medical parole system, suggesting compassionate release applications of terminally ill incarcerated individuals be reviewed by an external medical board.

Caregivers are essential partners in dementia care. This video highlights ways to recognize their role, support their well-being, and work together effectively.

The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

Is consciousness God?

Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Morgan Lieberman's "Hidden Once, Hidden Twice" is a documentary photo and film project bringing visibility to the lives of senior lesbian couples across the U.S.

Physician Jake Sonnenberg reviews All This Safety is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders, which collects writings that cast light on the flagrant injustices of for-profit he...

Through fashion, hair and makeup, De la Huerta directs herself into three viable paths her life could’ve taken, including the ghost of Marilyn Monroe.

Gail Butensky’s photographs of alternative and punk rockers find poignancy in the scene’s dissonance.

New rules requiring increased staffing and care are under attack.

Fraud in research needs to end.

The growing number of older people may suffer, but the geriatric approach can help every patient.

The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

How Surveillance Became a Love Language

What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.

An extraordinary firsthand account.