AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Some clinicians might neglect discussing benefits and harms of antimicrobials with their patients during advance care planning processes.

This article discusses fiduciary obligations transplant programs might have to patients with B cenocepacia.

Patients living in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) shoulder the greatest burden of infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.

The WHO has a list of essential medicines. What about medicines that might not get to patients who need them on time?

Quality control testing is ethically and clinically key to increasing transparency in excipient supply chains.

Patients’ vulnerabilities and conditions can be exacerbated when they feel bored.

Therapeutic security in inpatient psychiatric settings requires careful planning and implementation if it is to support both patients’ safety and dignity.

Iatrogenic harms of so-called “zero-risk” approaches must be balanced against promoting patients’ goals of care.

This commentary examines prevention policies that overly rely on liberty restrictions imposed by designs of inpatient psychiatric units’ structures and spaces.

Marburg virus is carried by the Egyptian rousette bat, a common cave-dwelling fruit bat endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, where populations can exceed 50 000.