US immigration policy contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which all United Nations member nations have ratified except the United States. The convention recognizes that children need special assistance and legal protection and prohibits deprivation of liberty.

Recent legislative and regulatory actions extend equal protection under the law to members of the LGBT community.

To achieve health equity, governments can use a variety of tools, including civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence.

Clinicians using governing authority to make public health policy are ethically obliged to draw upon scientific and clinical information that accords professional standards.

Weaknesses in regulatory approaches to negligent misrepresentation claims about dietary supplements can have clinical and public health consequences.

Las debilidades en los enfoques regulatorios ante afirmaciones tergiversadas negligentes sobre suplementos dietéticos pueden tener consecuencias clínicas y de salud pública.