Your ability to see well is precious. But, your vision is likely to deteriorate as you age. Some...
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Caregiving for someone with serious mental Illness: Secure your...
As a psychiatrist, I know how challenging it can be to ensure that individuals with serious mental...
What is wrong with Medicare prices for all?
In the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, Paul Hewitt and Phillip Longman make the case for...
How to improve access to medicines? Fix incentives
At the Lown Institute annual conference, Vinay Prasad, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the...
Should you be taking vitamins?
Liz Szabo reports for the New York Times that older Americans are popping supplements like candy...
Hundreds of patient advocacy groups are Pharma shills
About a year ago, a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the overwhelming...
Free and low-cost ways to address hearing loss
While our hearing is likely to weaken with age, there are things we can do to address hearing...
When will Congress control health care costs?
A February 2018 West Health Institute/NORC poll, complements findings from a recent Kaiser Family...
Get the preventive care you need: Medicare pays for it
Preventive care is very important, especially as you age. As you get older, vision, hearing and...
How to get free or low-cost dental care
Because dental care can be so expensive and most insurance—including Medicare—does not cover...