Physicians must resist judging the quality of life of their patients with Down syndrome and learn to listen and see them as individual personalities.

To make good communication choices for their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, hearing parents must develop their understanding of hearing loss.

Amendments to the Common Rule and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) raise questions about broad consent and sale of health data.

Undocumented immigrants treated with isoniazid (INH) for latent tuberculosis infection should be covered for transplant for INH-related liver failure.

Alternatives to suing could help open communication between injured patients and clinicians.

Streamlining US health care business has raised unique privacy concerns. Bills and explanations of benefits contain protected health information that could be disclosed to someone other than the patient.

Certificate of need programs need to be strengthened and updated to ensure consumers’ continuing access to care after hospital consolidations and mergers.

Law doesn’t always adequately address unauthorized uses of individuals’ DNA. Ethics can help establish legal privacy protections that work.

After the Indiana HIV outbreak in 2015, Congress partially repealed the ban on needle exchange programs, providing funding for operations but not syringes.

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