For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

High-resolution geographic information system tools map all general dentistry and periodontal practice locations as key sources of health inequity.

This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

Patient-physician concordance is a matter of degree. In certain circumstances, greater concordance can motivate important goals of medicine.

Mission statements offer limited benefit when patients do not have meaningful choices about where to seek care and can be misused.

Health workers care for COVID-19 patients, just as St Roch tended to bubonic plague victims during the Renaissance. Three artworks relate Roch’s story and apply key insights to the 2020 pandemic.

Research that places subjects and investigators at risk of additional harm must be considered carefully.

Dr Dónal O’Mathúna joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr Nawaraj Upadhaya: “Should Children Be Enrolled in Clinical Research in Conflict Zones?”

Despite concerns about clinical outcomes for patients with obesity, clinical trials report few data about such patients.