Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.

Clinicians must avoid violating professional ethical principles and patients’ legal rights and they may not ever discriminate. So, what does that mean in practice?

Carefully distinguishing between when the Nazi analogy is aptly applied and when it is not is key to ongoing PAD legalization deliberations.

Despite availability of good national oral health curricula for medical trainees, most physicians are ill-equipped to identify oral cancers or avoid unnecessary referrals.

Physicians must resist judging the quality of life of their patients with Down syndrome and learn to listen and see them as individual personalities.

To make good communication choices for their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, hearing parents must develop their understanding of hearing loss.

Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

This digital still from a narrated animated portrait depicts a woman overwhelmed by her body’s failure and by a health care system’s failure to care well.

If the safe-and-effective standard for judging devices’ potential as therapy or enhancement is inadequate, one might wonder whether BCI regulation should be overseen by the FDA.