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Richard Harris

Richard Harris is a freelance writer, consultant to the nonprofit iCivics and former senior producer of ABC News NIGHTLINE with Ted Koppel. Follow him on Twitter @redsox54.

Sanjay Gupta, keep your brain sharp, Next Avenue

Sanjay Gupta on How to Keep Your Brain Sharp

CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, a brain surgeon, shares his advice
January 5, 2021
Alex Trebek backstage at "Jeopardy!" He has 100 suits in rotation.

Alex Trebek: In His Own Words

The late TV host's reflections on cancer, family, his role on 'Jeopardy!' and finding peace
November 8, 2020
Winnona Merritt who has one of these advance directives

Directing Doctors to Treat Others With COVID-19 First

What to know about the new Save Other Souls advance directive
August 13, 2020
Ruta Lee helped Alex roll the die on his first American game show, High Rollers, which debuted in 1974

The Answer is...A Biography of Alex Trebek

An A & Q with the author of a new book on the popular 'Jeopardy!' host
July 21, 2020
The author and his grandson

A Letter to My New Grandson

A grandfather reflects on the world his grandson entered in June 2020
July 8, 2020
Jonas Chaves, who died after contracting COVID-19 in a nursing home

A COVID-19 Nursing Home Death: My Uncle Jonas

His passing is emblematic of the COVID-19 tragedies in long-term care
May 29, 2020
Dr. Vivek Murthy, former surgeon general of the United States

Why the Former Surgeon General Worries About Loneliness and Older Adults

A conversation with the author of the new book, 'Together'
April 29, 2020
The Miami-Dade Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP) is a team of dedicated public servants who work through the courts to help people with mental illness.

When Homelessness, Mental Illness and COVID-19 Collide

A new PBS documentary on a Florida judge's vital project
April 14, 2020
Author Diane Rehm

The State of the Medical Aid-in-Dying Debate

Diane Rehm updates us in her new book, 'When My Time Comes'
February 4, 2020
Georgetown

How a Slavery Legacy Made This 65-Year-Old a Georgetown Undergrad

The new life, on campus, for Melisande Short-Colomb
June 13, 2019
alzheimer's report

10 Years After Alzheimer's Report: Any Progress?

What those who wrote the report and other experts say
March 25, 2019
Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor and Alzheimer's: A Personal Story

How the Supreme Court Justice cared for her husband and lives with dementia now
March 19, 2019
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