Tag Archives: Matters

60 Minutes-Sex Matters

02/09/2014-Ambien–Zolpidem–is now the only prescription drug in the country with a different suggested dose for men and women. But 60 Minutes discovered it is far from an isolated example of differences between the sexes. Lesley Stahl reports that more and more, scientists are realizing that these differences are dangerously understudied and that pervasively and fundamentally,… Read More »

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of… Read More »