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Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

Courses on medical malpractice litigation help medical students learn what is expected of them as expert witness and defendant through a mock deposition.

A new neuropsychological, game-based test battery to measure traits predictive of recidivism holds promise for individually tailoring criminal sentences.

After the Indiana HIV outbreak in 2015, Congress partially repealed the ban on needle exchange programs, providing funding for operations but not syringes.

Equal access is a goal even when patients present with taboo illnesses. But, the date of a patient’s last drink still matters.

Transplant physicians must respect indecisive patients’ autonomy while continuing to educate them during their progress towards transplantation.

Introduction to the February 2016 issue on liver transplant ethics from donation to allocation.

Standards for posttransplant graft/survival rates do not reward transplant centers for performing riskier transplants to increase population benefit.

Organ allocation models that maximize the collective benefit of an organ rely on subjective criteria and might have unintended practical consequences.

Despite clear donor consent, health professionals must communicate clearly about death to family members to avoid confusion.