Yesterday was a good morning to wake up and smell the coffee. A new study found drinking coffee was associated with living longer in both men and women.
Jed Diamond | Posted 04.25.2012
If we can reduce men's risk of death to the same level as women's, we can save nearly a million men within three years.
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012
CHICAGO, April 18 (Reuters) - Belief in God is highest among older people and increases with age, perhaps due to the growing realization that death ...
James F. Lacey | Posted 04.12.2012
I began to notice that young people on the street, even girls, were walking faster, overtaking me effortlessly. I'd not realized that slowing down was to be understood literally.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.12.2012
A falling unemployment rate is typically good news, but some economists point to a glaring downside. When the jobless rate falls, the death rate goes ...
Bethany St. James | Posted 04.10.2012
How will I be remembered by those who knew me? What will my legacy be? When asking yourself those questions, do you like the answers?
Posted 04.07.2012
For today's edition of things you would not expect to see in an art gallery: a car crash. Jonathan Schipper choreographed a slow motion car crash t...
Posted 04.03.2012
The terrifying financial insecurity of unemployment may not even be the worst part of losing your job. That's because the chance that a person will...
Sam Pizzigati | Posted 05.25.2012
What's going on here? Inequality is going on. Inequality generates a chronic stress that saps and zaps our physical health, and no major developed nation has become more unequal over recent decades than the United States.
Rev. Eleanor Harrison Bregman | Posted 04.23.2012
Yes, there is a need for introspection and repenting - I don't want to minimize that. But my tradition also promises a Love that will hold us all forever, in life and in death.
Marika Holmgren | Posted 04.05.2012
I almost feel silly, loving it all so much. Sometimes it's truly painful, in that amazing beautiful way that a really fantastic movie moves you to your core. It's almost too good to handle. That's how I feel about life. I want to wear it, eat it, smell it, share it. Thank you, cancer. I love you. And I hate you.
Meghan McCullough | Posted 03.18.2012
I'm sure all of you have heard adults utter the overused and condescending phrase, "You teenagers think you are invincible." Are we able to fully grasp the concept that life is, in fact, temporary?
Anneli Rufus | Posted 03.04.2012
While too much is definitely too much, a surprising number of new studies suggest that moderate alcohol consumption can actually benefit our health and help us live longer than drinking no alcohol at all.
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 02.14.2012
In times of grief, I seek solace with art. I hope that in my role as director of a museum of contemporary art, I am able to play some small role in facilitating an experience that might provide solace for others.
Robert Hughes, Jr. | Posted 02.02.2012
Researchers found that adults who were divorced were 23% more likely to die younger than their married counterparts. Men had almost twice as high a risk of early death compared to women.
Posted 11.14.2011
Want to predict your longevity? Walk -- don't run. A new study conducted by the University of Pittsburgh that was published in the Journal of the ...
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 12.13.2011
A multivitamin is very, very unlikely to kill anyone. If there is risk attached to the use of such supplements, it is very small. But there may be some risk -- and there is no reliable indication of benefit.
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 12.12.2011
The sukkah is a symbol of impermanence. We must sit in something that is fragile, fleeting, sure to disappear tomorrow, for that is our fate as well.
Max Lugavere | Posted 12.10.2011
Was it Steve Jobs' unyielding passion for his work -- stopped short in the face of his own mortality -- that connected us so viscerally to him?
WSJ | Posted 11.19.2011
By Sudeep Reddy of the Wall Street Journal The World Bank’s latest World Development Report, which focuses on gender equality around the world, o...
James Peron | Posted 11.13.2011
On three occasions, I assumed I would die -- not in the sense that we all assume we will die eventually, but imminently so.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 10.20.2011
The prospect of living longer is, of course, intriguing. But, there are so many moral, ethical and social issues that beg to be considered.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.19.2011
A just-published article claims that people who stay single are headed straight to the grave -- and fast. Faster than people who are currently married.
Charlie Carillo | Posted 10.16.2011
An all-day rain in NYC makes you think about sad stuff. On a day like this, I'm forced to ponder the ultimate question: what the hell happens after we die?
Terry Newell | Posted 10.15.2011
At first thought, Kylemore Abbey, the majestic castle looking across Pollacappul Lake and nestled in the Connemara highlands of western Ireland, bears...
Michael Greger, M.D. | Posted 05.18.2012