BY SUSAN M. MATHEWS, PhD, RN, MSBE There are more than 250,000 people in the U.S. at the end stages of heart failure. Of those about 15 percent are in critical need of a heart transplant. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) tightly regulates organ transplant programs and can halt reimbursement if they […]
BY SUSAN M. MATHEWS, PhD, RN, MSBE I published the essay below on December 21, 2017. Some of the numbers have changed but the story has not, so it’s being republished with the following update. The opioid epidemic continued to balloon with lots of lip service by politicians while the Sacklers continued to live the […]
BY SUSAN M. MATHEWS, PhD, RN, MSBE Have you ever found yourself singing along to all of the lyrics of a song you knew in high school but can’t remember what someone told you last week? Well, there may be a scientific basis for this amazing recall. A research team from the Boston University Alzheimer’s […]
BY CRAIG KLUGMAN, Ph.D. The film, “The Farewell” claims to be a movie “based on an actual lie.” Billi is a first generation Chinese-American twenty-something artist living in New York near her parents. After not being awarded a Guggenheim fellowship (a fact she hides from her family), she learns that her parents are heading back […]
Is physician-assisted dying/suicide just the first step onto the slippery slope of normalizing suicide?