Perhaps machine learning systems trained on patients’ electronic health records and social media footprints could be used as decision aids when patients lack capacity or face overwhelming decisions.

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

Minimizing and managing risks of ENMs means considering whether and when existing legal frameworks offer sufficient protection.

Nanoscale products pose ethical, legal, and policy challenges to governing the use of products that integrate multiple mechanisms of therapeutic action.

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

Responding to patients violating US health commerce regulations can be critical when they buy and use unproven interventions.

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

Little claims data exists upon which to make informed decisions about loss control or to draw upon when developing risk mitigation strategies.

The American Medical Association named alcoholism and addiction as illnesses during the 20th century. Obesity, smoking, and motor vehicle safety were also named as public health issues and targeted in poster advertising campaigns.

During one 2014 Ebola epidemic, arrival of “safe burial” teams was often delayed. Some buried their loved ones themselves, which undermined containment efforts.