There are advantages and disadvantages associated with requiring explicit testing for HIV.

Overview of Opinion 9.13 and Opinion 9.131 of the AMA Code of Medical Ethics on opinions on physicians with infectious diseases.

Physicians have an obligation to consider a patient’s quality of life when making treatment decisions and should consider giving patients the options of withholding or withdrawing aggressive treatment if that treatment will not restore the kind of life the patient finds meaningful.

Medical technology presents a new ethical question in the case of a patient with a left ventricular assist device who, when informed that he has pneumonia and is ineligible for a heart transplant, asks that the LVAD be turned off.

The rule of double effect can help Catholic institutions determine whether terminal sedation is ever morally acceptable.

Ethicist Kate Scannell, MD, discusses “Carry Me,” a painting by Timothy Grubbs Lowly, in light of her experiences during the AIDs epidemic.

Physicians are encouraged to resist the temptation to allow their personal lifestyle beliefs to affect the treatment that they give to patients.

Physicians are encouraged to resist the temptation to allow their personal lifestyle beliefs to affect the treatment that they give to patients.

Professional, practical, clinical and cultural obligations should guide decision making when a funding agency restricts the types of counseling and advice it allows medical professionals to dispense.

The media has a responsibility to do more to counter the stigma that has been placed on HIV and AIDS so that more at-risk patients will seek treatment.