The AAP’s guidelines on lipid screening for children raise concerns about the fundamental purpose of prevention and its role in balancing individual autonomy with the benefits of society at large.

The medicalization of addiction has greatly improved identification, early intervention, and referral to appropriate treatment.

A discussion of how physicians should handle a patient's request to be tested for diseases that have received a high level of media coverage.

Recent increases in adolescent mortality from overdose have outpaced increases in mortality in members of the general population.

Dr Brady J. Heward joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Amy M. Yule and Peter R. Jackson: “How Should Harm Reduction Strategies Differ for Adolescents and Adults?”