When I first became a doctor, I cared for an older man whom I’ll call Ted. He was so sick with pneumonia that he was struggling to breathe. His primary-care physician had prescribed one [...]
From the moment that Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President, in 2019, he has been attacked as being too old. At the time, Biden was seventy-six and cast himself as a “transitional” [...]
Ana Santos, a microbiologist at Rice University, grew up in Cantanhede, a small city in Portugal that is known as a biotechnology hub and a source of good wine. When she was a child, her [...]
In December, 2021, a few weeks after the Omicron variant emerged to spark a new, punishing phase of the covid-19 pandemic, Jim Lester’s birds got sick. Lester, who owns an exhibition farm in [...]
