An analysis by The Marshall Project provides a window into what causes thousands of people to die in prisons and jails every ...

Medicare is often seen as a universal safety net, a guarantee for older Americans that after decades of work — and having taxes withheld from their paychecks — the federal government will provide ...

Palliative care and hospice professionals discuss what the process is like — and their insights may challenge what you think ...

For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous. Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls on the beach or around his neighborhood in Seaside, ...

Imagine you knew you were dying soon. What would matter most to you? How would you change the way you spend your time? How would you reflect on your life? Whom would you want near? These are common ...

Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table that was dressed as a bed, complaining that her ...

More than 20 years ago, the World Health Organization tried to answer a tricky question: How many people die each year because of climate change? Its 2003 seminal report put the number at 150,000, ...