A physician defends her position that children should only participate in clinical trials when they have child assent and the parents also have been educated about the purpose of the research when there is no direct benefit to the child.

A review of three journal articles shows the significant impact that poverty has on physical and mental health status, as well as all causes of mortality.

The physical exam aids differential diagnosis and is unlikely to be replaced by new technology. It is important in resource-poor settings and in the litigious U.S., and it fosters a trusting and therapeutic patient-doctor relationship.

A journal article's findings confirm that patients in Kentucky with private health insurance have better clinical outcomes than patients with other types of insurance.

Researchers have attempted to identify excessive Internet use and video game playing and have sought to classify it as an addiction.

In a study of New York physicians' compliance with reporting of communicable diseases, surveyed physicians responded better to legal warnings than to requests that explained public health benefits.

An exploration of the types of emergency medical care most used by undocumented immigrants in one study area and the preventive interventions that the study results suggest.

Clinical momentum—increasingly aggressive treatment in intensive care settings that can violate a patient’s wishes—is charged by ritually intensifying efforts to “save” a patient, reimbursement patterns that privilege acute interventions, and technology-driven health care.

Paul Miller and Charles Weijer defend the concept of equipoise in medical research in a recent journal article.

Clinical judgment and experience often trump evidence-based practice guidelines in physicians' medical decision-making process.