To live a meaningful, fulfilling life, you have to accept that it'll eventually come to an end, says Shoshana Ungerleider. Over the years of caring for ill hospital patients, Ungerleider — a doctor ...

Shoshana Ungerleider is many things: an internal medicine physician, a science journalist, a San Francisco resident, a host and producer of TED Health, and founder of End Well, a nonprofit ...

More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members ...

We've seen it so many times. A young, handsome man rushed into the emergency room with a gunshot wound. A flurry of white coats racing the clock: CPR, the heart zapper, the order for a scalpel. Stat!

One of the “greatest heartbreaks” Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider hears from her patients is that many wish they'd asked their parents more questions. “By the time that we get to this realization that we ...

90% of Americans say end-of-life conversations are important, yet only 27% have had them - television storytelling emerges as a breakthrough solution to bridge the gap. Television storylines featuring ...