Editorial fellow Dr Ariel Wampler describes what few know about material and device regulation, and Dr Adriane Fugh-Berman explains why we should ask more questions about device representatives’ intraoperative roles during implantations.

The European Dementia Village is a pioneering health care site, and a US-based model is the Dementia Friendly City Center, which integrates service delivery into adaptive reuse and urban revitalization.

Safety-net hospitals care for patients who are incarcerated and are key environments in which surgical trainees learn to wield their professional autonomy.

Private equity investments in health care have grown to over $750 billion in the past decade and include every segment of the US health sector.

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

This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia.

Conflicts of interest must be acknowledged with sincerity and earnestness and managed such that the conflict is eliminated or, at least, credibly mitigated.

Examining modern design trends in historical context is more clinically and ethically important than ever.

This commentary examines prevention policies that overly rely on liberty restrictions imposed by designs of inpatient psychiatric units’ structures and spaces.

Iatrogenic harms of so-called “zero-risk” approaches must be balanced against promoting patients’ goals of care.