The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz...

His work with Hospice patients, plus research on end-of-life dreams, and also his generous gift of farmland to refugees in WNY speak to Dr. Kerr's selflessness...

Even before the onset of Covid-19, there were legions of people with serious illnesses in America. Yet medical students and resident physicians get only a few hours of education on how to help these people cope with suffering or plan for the ends of their lives...

Disposable medical gowns commonly used by staff in hospitals and nursing homes provide minimal protection for staff against the spread of pathogens and disease, and reusable gowns can provide greater protection and offer other advantages, recent research has reemphasized...

Older adults are less likely than younger ones to continue using virtual medical services, grocery delivery services or curbside pick-up after the pandemic ends, according to the results of a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the SCAN Foundation, released Tuesday...

It’s time to update COVID-19 vaccines in anticipation of a possible infection surge this fall, a federal panel decided Tuesday. Older adults and other at-risk Americans should likely be first in line when these drugs become available, they said...

Set to expire later this month, the public health emergency (PHE) is likely to continue, along with regulatory waivers that expanded telehealth utilization and streamlined other health care processes...

COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. between March 2020 and October 2021, according to an analysis of federal data released Tuesday...

A new study of Medicare data by the University of Michigan found telehealth facilitated about 1 in 10 outpatient appointments for older Americans over the last two years. The finding counters concerns about telehealth overuse during the pandemic, researchers say...