A study in the American Journal of Public Healthexamining mammogram use in older persons found that 18% of women with…
Over the past year, I have had several 80+ patients, combat veterans of WWII, who have had very significant symptoms…
For years, many academics (myself included) have decried the lack of rigorous clinical trial evidence to inform the care of…
The current issue of JAMA reports on the largest trialever conducted for a drug designed to slow the progression of…
I have an nonagenarian who is a racist. I don’t think you can use the words she uses to describe…
Don’t know what to get your favorite geriatrician for the holidays? Out of ideas as you bought your geriatrician a…
It was the a Monday morning in November when I got the first call from my uncle Gili – my…
An excellent article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society provides insights into primary care physicians views of dementia…
In one of the most influentialhealth policy journals of our time – the New Yorker- the surgeon Atul Gawande “calls…
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) pose one of the most interesting and difficult of dilemmas about disease screening. AAAs are dilitations…