Every day in intensive care units across the country, patients get aggressive, expensive treatment their caregivers know is not going to save their lives or make them better. California researchers ...

Will Forte stars as Doug Kenney, one of the founders of National Lampoon and co-writer of 'Animal House' and 'Caddyshack,' in 'A Futile and Stupid Gesture,' a new biopic now on Netflix. By Leslie ...

More than one in 10 patients being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) was at some point receiving what doctors deemed to be futile care, in a new study. In those cases, critical care doctors ...

The Texas Advance Directive Act (TADA) allows a hospital bioethics committee and doctors to veto wanted life-sustaining treatment if they believe the suffering thereby caused is unwarranted–with the ...

A Futile and Stupid Gesture launches on Netflix on January 26. It’s difficult to think of a decade more influential to comedy and pop culture than the 1970s, when some of the greatest stand-up ...

In a pit of despair, one of the defining comic voices of his generation gets a pep talk from a friend. Hey, says the friend, you wrote the biggest comedy movie of all time on your first try! “That was ...

Nearly 1 in 5 patients in a hospital’s intensive care unit gets care and treatment judged by the physician in charge to be ineffective, needlessly aggressive or pointless given the patient’s dire ...

A Futile and Stupid Gesture seems fun enough at first. In fact, the Netflix Original film starts as a wryly satiric take on the stale biopic genre. From the beginning, actor Martin Mull breaks the ...

More than 99% of veterinarians surveyed said they'd encountered useless or non-beneficial veterinary care in their careers, according to a new Cornell-led study that documents the prevalence of futile ...

It’s a paradoxical truth of human existence that we are motivated by self-interest yet regularly act in ways that undermine it. This curious tendency often manifests in the form of futile persistence.