The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

Patient-centered care means offering potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding retraumatizing a patient.

While men are diagnosed with depression at half the rate of women, they die by suicide 3 to 4 times as frequently.

Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences.

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

As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

“Very important persons” care contributes to multitiered, racially segregated health service delivery streams that influence clinicians’ conceptions of what patients deserve from them.

Dr Lisa Lehmann joins Ethics Talk to discuss “grateful patient programs,” pressures clinicians face to fundraise on behalf of health care organizations for which they work, and whether “VIP” care really is better for patients.

The Roadmap to Advance Health Equity offers specific, actionable antiracist payment reform strategies to help ensure that everyone can receive good health services and optimize their health.

The AAP’s guidelines on lipid screening for children raise concerns about the fundamental purpose of prevention and its role in balancing individual autonomy with the benefits of society at large.