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

Since 1995, the American Academy of Neurology has provided guidelines for brain death determination, but nationwide adherence to these guidelines has been incomplete.

The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust.

The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide.

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

Allocating resources for interventions requires consensus among stakeholders with a plurality of perspectives about how to weigh antimicrobial stewardship interventions’ risks and benefits.

The AMA’s Historic Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection includes images of quack devices from the early 20th century that generated oversight we now take for granted.

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "How Pseudoscience Generated US Material and Device Regulations"