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.

This watercolor painting looks to our 20th-century ancestors who fought to establish their, and many of our, voting rights.

Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.

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.

In the 1910s, the American Medical Association fought quackery promoted in pamphlets for drugs and treatments for everything from teething to epilepsy.

False health information can harm, so hosts and writers of website content, clinicians, and patients are all responsible for jointly appraising the quality of online content and preventing the spread of misinformation.

Although the World Health Organization defines infertility as a disease, insurance coverage gaps generate disparities in access to care and treatment, especially for tubal factor infertility and oncofertility.

Using emergency departments as revenue streams could violate ethical and legal standards about hospitals’ roles in communities.

Since clinics are economic hubs in some communities, consequences of a clinic closing or moving are numerous.