Susan Gilbert

Network news correspondent and author Betty Rollin died in November at age 87. Surprisingly, there has been little public comment upon how her life ended. Rollin died in Switzerland at Pegasos, a voluntary assisted dying service. The circumstances of her death underscore the confusion over terminology and the uneasiness some feel regarding efforts to legalize assisted dying in New York State and elsewhere in our country.

After several recent vehicular accidents at the Park Avenue/Wollaston Street/Paul Revere Road intersection, resulting in one serious injury, the Select Board unanimously voted at its Jan. 22 meeting to receive a 1,076-person signed petition requesting pedestrian safety improvements.

The Arlington Select Board on Feb. 5, 2024, got the town's proposed fiscal 2025 budget, a $218 million plan reflecting a 3.22-percent increase over FY2024.

When you’re out and about in town this month ‒ Arlington Center, the Heights or East Arlington ‒ be on the lookout for colorful banners displayed along Mass. Ave. as the town observes Black History Month.

In a recent commentary, physician Alan Astrow expressed skepticism about the legalization of medical aid in dying. He cited the subjectivity

How can the legitimate concerns of fertility patients whose embryos are negligently lost be addressed without threatening the very existence of IVF?

With a new technology called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), scientists produced an egg from a male mouse, leading to two male mice having offspring. In mice. IVG could be a game changer for women and men dealing with infertility, women of advanced maternal age, and same-sex couples.

This year will be the most important moment for global health since WHO’s founding in 1948, but only if states give major reforms their full political and financial backing.

I had underestimated the challenges I would face as an ESL speaker when immersed as a clinical ethicist in the dynamic space of the hospital. This was like learning a third language.

While working as a medical volunteer in the clinic at the edge of the refugee camp, I quickly realized I was in a clinical environment I had never seen before. I was unprepared for the sheer scale of medical needs among the refugees I was there to serve, and for what resource scarcity meant under these conditions.