Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma and breast implant illness have prompted recalls of implants.

Financial relationships are common, and ethical questions rightly emerge about how conflicts of interest compromise investigators’ approaches to research.

The AMA’s Historic Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection includes images of quack devices from the early 20th century that generated oversight we now take for granted.

Priorities far beyond generating morbidity or mortality data are needed to improve patients’ experiences, innovate metrics, and advance surgical palliation as a field.

Clinician-family communication in surgical intensive care units should focus on reducing value incongruence and nonbeneficial operations.

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "How Pseudoscience Generated US Material and Device Regulations"

A physician may withhold information from a patient if he believes that he is acting in accordance with the patient’s wishes and best interests.

Using social media tools in health-related research involves challenges to confidentiality, privacy, and consent.

Most clinicians receive little training in integrating Native healing into allopathic practice, which undermines patients’ autonomy and cultural values.