Two commentaries respond to a case about apnea testing to confirm death by neurologic criteria.

Sterilization requires physicians’ surgical skills. Forced sterilization requires many clinicians’ complicity.

Co-creation initiatives in health care have potential to support health equity but require a redistribution of power and a common vision in order to succeed.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

Drug-using pregnant women have historically been subject to surveillance that criminalizes addiction, impedes care, and increases health risks.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on organ transplantation.

Qualifying conscience protections for institutions with requirements that they minimize hardship caused to the patient would prevent religious institutions from acting as a choke point on the path to services.

Julian Savulescu's writing on conscientious objection is guided by an emphasis on the principle of distributive justice that does not allow religion to have a special status as justification.

All of us who are pursuing solutions to the obesity epidemic face clinical, ethical, and regulatory challenges. First among them is the significant role of individual lifestyle and behavior choices in causing obesity.

A physician has an obligation to order necessary diagnostic tests for a patient on Medicaid with whom he or she has an established patient-physician relationship regardless of whether the cost of the necessary test will be reimbursed.