No. 64/September 11, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Maybe You Don’t Need That Statin More than 92 million Americans take statin drugs to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Doctors who prescribe […]
Photo by Patrick Marah on Unsplash The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My memory has a negative bias. Maybe your memory isn’t wired this way, but whenever I have occasion to look back at my life, I find it easy to recall my […]
Photo by Unsplash+ in collaboration with Curated Lifestyle The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My wife and I have been talking about how to handle our final resting places. Not with our friends, of course. The surest way to clear […]
No. 63/August 28, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. Aging Occurs in Great Leaps A study published this year has found that humans age – at the molecular level – in two great bursts, one at age […]
Photo by Alisha Hieb on Unsplash As a former vice president of the United States once remarked to the United Negro College Fund, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” For many years, the conventional wisdom was that, with rare exceptions, losing one’s […]
Photo by Aleksei Sabulevskii on Unsplash Earlier this summer a tropical depression visited my hometown, and another kind of depression visited me. Spoiler alert: I’m over it now. When depression has me in its grip, it is not possible to write. It is not even possible to lift a pencil. I have no energy, no motivation, no hope. […]
No. 62/August 14, 2024 NewScan is a biweekly briefing on news relevant to readers of The EndGame. NewScan is a premium feature exclusively for paid subscribers. How to Make Retirement Savings More Secure On the 50th anniversary of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), retirement writer Mark Miller asked policy experts how […]
Photo by Unsplash+ in collaboration with Getty Images The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As the number of older adults in the U.S. continues to rise steadily, much like the sea levels, you may be happy to learn that someone […]
Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash [Note to subscribers: While I am on a brief vacation, I am reposting a past column. Don’t worry: the summer rerun season at The EndGame is brief.] The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. When […]
Photo by Unsplash+ in collaboration with Getty Images The EndGame is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What if I told you that you have access to a free miracle drug that can lower your risk of heart attack, lower your glucose level, […]
