The risks of misinformation being spread through online patient forums can be mitigated by communication strategies aimed at physicians and organizations.

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

Transitions in relabeling personalized medicine as precision medicine, precision health, or wellness genomics reflect shifting the locus of responsibility for health from individuals to clinicians and in shifting focus from genetic risk to genetic enhancement.

CHWs’ work underscores need for clinicians and organizations to respond to deeply entrenched, long-standing patterns of oppression in ways that draw upon lived experience.

Wandy D. Hernandez-Gordon joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Why Community Health Workers’ Roles in Latinx Communities Are Essential.”

Healthist views about body shape and weight are oppressive and lead to pernicious harms, especially to members of vulnerable groups. 

Weight loss is not a safe, effective, or permanent method of health promotion, and pharmacotherapeutical approaches pose specific risks to adolescents. 

In the early 20th century, the United States, as an industrialized nation with more food than ever, began to grapple with obesity.

Trust is a social condition that positions science to beneficially contribute to democratic societies.