How old can we possibly get? While Americans are not living as long as people in other wealthy...
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Novartis gains White House support after paying $1.2 million to...
Despite campaign claims to rein in prescription drug prices and drain the swamp of corruption in...
Health care costs in retirement average $140,000
Arielle O’Shea reports in Forbes that a couple who retires this year should expect to spend...
Insurers donate to Democrats in attempt to undermine support for...
Tarbell reports that commercial health insurers are supporting Democrats with larger campaign...
Are we spending too much on health care at end of life?
A new study in Science, by Amy Finkelstein et al., suggests that we may not be spending too much...
A Fitbit of sorts for your stomach
StatNews reports on a new implantable sensor in development at MIT labs that allows people to...
Don’t be misled by “five-star” nursing home ratings
In the fall of 2014, The New York Times reported that Medicare five-star nursing home ratings do...
Organizing older adults to defend our health care
A recent paper by Community Catalyst’s Leena Sharma, Carol Regan and Katherine Villers...
Another study confirms, it’s the prices, stupid
Why do we spend so much more on health care than other countries? In 2003, Gerard Anderson and Uwe...
This is your brain on exercise
To support brain health, we know many things that people should not do, such as smoke, drink...