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Death from cancer or other diseases at home, in the bosom of the family, is associated with a higher quality of life at the end of life.

The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys usually bypass Chicago when driving through the Midwest, but, for the UChicago Folk Fest on February 10 and 11, the Grammy-nominated folk band made the city their destination. “It took us a long time to get here, cause your traffic is really bad,” quipped the band’s mandolinist C.J. Lewandowski, “[But] we’re...

From the blog of Judith Tepe at The Times of Israel

NU-9 – now called AKV9 could be more effective than anything else on the market currently used to treat ALS.

When Barbara Silverman, 77, moved to Arizona several years ago, she wanted to find other Jewish women. But that task turned out to be harder than she expected since she didn’t know where they were. She resolved to become systematic in her search. “The best way was to find a temple and then Sisterhood and then Hadassah,” she said. Hadassah is a Jewish women’s advocacy organization, which focuses on women’s health, Israel’s security and fighting anti-Semitism. Hadassah operates two hospitals in Jerusalem, which treat more than a million people each year, according ...