Eve Glicksman

So many stories of people holding on to life until a loved one reaches the bedside or leaves the room make some think we may have some control over when we die.

Our daily soundscape is a cacophony of ear-splitting jets, motorcycles, and construction sites. Engineers know how to eliminate and control noise, but other countries are ahead of the U.S. when it comes to keeping the quiet - with related health benefits.

Will choosing a doctor who looks like you result in better health care?

That your risk of Alzheimer’s disease depends on your salary, what you ate as a child, or the block where you live may seem implausible. But researchers are discovering that social determinants of health play an outsized role in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Low health literacy is nothing new in America. But the pandemic magnifies how troubling it is.

When people say someone had “a good death,” they usually mean that someone was comfortable and not in pain. But what if you could help their final days include the things they treasure -- like their favorite song playing, who is at their bedside, even the scent of a candle in the room -- so they feel at peace.

Picture this: your medical first responder descends from the sky like a friendly, unmanned starship. Hovering over your door, it drops a device with recorded instructions to help a bystander jumpstart your heart that has stopped. This, after the 911 call but before the ambulance arrives.

Jargon can create a wall between managers and employers.

The relationship between patient satisfaction scores and medical outcomes is complicated ... and troubling.

In the next 10 years, scientists expect to have a "robot nose" that can sniff out disease, much like animals can from odors emanating from skin, breath, blood and urine.

Goodwin is lively, gracious, and (of course) knowledgeable.

In what may be a well-kept professional secret, physicians dread encounters with about 15 percent of their patients. And if you are difficult, it could distract a physician and affect your care.

New dads get the short-shrift when it comes to community services. Milwaukee is trying to change that.

A peek backstage behind a live Phantom of the Opera production.

Every year, upward of 12 million Americans see a physician and come away with a wrong diagnosis.