New stuff I’m learning about living dying what matters most - Sun, Oct 13 2019

Lianne Kraemer had been living with metastatic breast cancer for more than a year when I met her in December 2017 at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio. Throughout the week, more than 7,000 doctors, scientists and…

Jeff Cohn Living with a chronic illness is hard- many people, including many people with cancer, want to do whatever's possible to be cured- living longer with disease that may eventually be life-limiting is a poor but acceptable second choice for them...

An online friendship that started with shared grief. My friend Laura blogged for 772 consecutive days — from the time her son Benji was diagnosed with Leukemia at the age of seven to the day he died, six weeks after his ninth birthday. I…

Jeff Cohn How what might seem to be 'weak ties,' being connected only because of social media, can turn out to be amazingly strong and supportive when the ties are based on aspects of one's life that are of utmost importance

The doctor enters the exam room. You talk about why you're there. The doctor responds. And then what? According to researchers, how the physician responds can make a difference in your progress. If you feel understood and cared about, your…

Jeff Cohn It seems clear that empathy is a key quality in creating/sustaining a healing relationship. How then do 10-minute office visits and productivity standards jive with this concept???

LOS ANGELES — Growing up in the Baldwin Village section of Los Angeles, Charles Slay roamed the streets as a member of the Bloods. The neighborhood was forlorn and devoid of commercial life, making it easy ground for ambush —…

Jeff Cohn It makes excellent sense for large industries of any type, including healthcare organizations, to invest in the quality of life of the communities where they're located

This story is part of “ The Elemental Guide to This Year's Flu,” a multi-story special report. Headache, fever, cough, sore throat, congestion, aches, and pains. There's no way around it, the flu is miserable… Welcome to a…

Jeff Cohn As we're entering flu season I'm providing this excellent and practical piece- and if you haven't yet, please get your flu shot!

Before Natalie Nakles was born, before the egg from which she was conceived was even fully mature, something went slightly awry. The egg that would help form her ended up with two copies of chromosome 16. So today, 24 year-old Nakles does not, as…

Jeff Cohn I did not know about this possibility, though it's not surprising that inheritance is more complex than the linear process we've learned about since Mendel and his fruit flies...

Parents and kids who are fans of “Sesame Street” will now see a new storyline for one the show's muppets: one of parental addiction. Videos launched Wednesday feature the muppet Karli, whose mother is struggling with addiction, and…

Jeff Cohn This show continues to evolve- I give them credit for taking risks and covering issues important to kids and parents. A long way from 'Rubber Ducky...'

Last month, Netflix released Unbelievable, a crime series based on the real-life case of a rape victim the police refused to believe. The show has garnered a lot of media attention for its unflinching portrayal of post traumatic stress disorder…

Jeff Cohn Good information about a tough subject- and I think the Netflix series mentioned did an excellent job portraying this as well