The US Supreme Court has allowed race-conscious admissions when a school’s purpose is to diversify an incoming class but not to remediate inequity.

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

Invisibility of racial inequity and gender inclusion in clinical research means key features of disease etiology and symptom presentation are unaccounted for.

Lack of training and lack of knowledge can adversely influence a patient’s clinical outcomes.

Jeffrey Bedard joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article: "What Should Patients Be Told About Device Representatives’ Roles at the Point of Surgical Care?"

Using social media tools in health-related research involves challenges to confidentiality, privacy, and consent.

Interventions’ influences on decision making situate clinician performance evaluations in key ways.

Large precision health initiatives like the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us campaign raise important ethical questions about consent, privacy, and inclusivity. This month on Ethics Talk, we explore with Dr Katie Johansen Taber and Ysabel Duron strategies for protecting participants and ensuring that diverse communities are represented.

The communication training program at University of Washington Medical Center aims to develop best practices for effective pathology communication.

When a patient is incompetent and unrepresented, alternative strategies must be implemented to document and try to rectify an error.