First Opinion Haider J. Warraich For-profit nursing homes and hospices are a bad deal for older Americans
First Opinion Jacob M. Appel Some people in persistent vegetative states have working minds. Does keeping them in limbo amount to torture?
First Opinion Robert Truog New guidelines on severe brain injury complicate already difficult decisions
First Opinion Colleen M. Farrell As a doctor in the ICU, I sometimes feel helpless. Poetry provides solace
First Opinion Jay Baruch When death is imminent, end-of-life care decisions sometimes go out the window
First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?
First Opinion Krista Lyn Harrison, Meredith Greene and Anthony Galanos We all need help working through grief and hardship
First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions
First Opinion Joel B. Zivot and Ira Bedzow What the death rattle and capital punishment have in common
First Opinion Ravi Parikh, Christopher Manz and Mitesh Patel A nudge helps doctors bring up end-of-life issues with their dying cancer patients
First Opinion Charlotte Grinberg It should be easy for people to receive end-of-life care at home. Why is it so hard?
Health Eric Boodman She’s spent decades caring for dying patients. When her mom’s time came, Covid-19 kept them apart
Health Eric Boodman A cancer patient reconsiders her end-of-life wishes, as Covid-19 brings mortality into sharper focus
First Opinion Angelo Volandes, Aretha Delight Davis and Ira Byock While social distancing, do your other patriotic duty: have The Conversation about serious illness care
First Opinion Mackenzie Graham, Adrian M. Owen and Charles Weijer Armchair philosophizing doesn’t help conscious patients in vegetative states
First Opinion Sarah H. Cross and Haider J. Warraich More Americans are dying at home. Is that a good thing?
First Opinion Adam Philip Stern ‘The most peaceful sleep’: Cancer is nudging me to picture dying in a new way
In the Lab Sharon Begley The pigs were dead. But four hours later, scientists restored cellular functions in their brains
Politics Nicholas Florko A year after Trump touted ‘right to try,’ patients still aren’t getting treatment
First Opinion LaVarne A. Burton States are protecting living organ donors. Congress should follow suit
First Opinion Joanne M. Chiedi Fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare hospice program is ‘repellent’