This image aims to promote reflection about patients’ feelings of sadness, despair, helplessness, and uncertainty upon being diagnosed.

Dr. Oz’s advice has raised ethical questions about medicine as a profession, its evidentiary standards, and its role in maintaining public trust.

Almost all allopathic medical schools in the United States allow students to participate in global health.

Short-term experiences in global health are common ways trainees engage in global health activities. Professional societies take active roles in addressing these ethical challenges.

The Code offers guidance about delivering a diagnosis and promoting patients’ best interests when assigning names to patients’ conditions.

Two concerns (unknowability of how output is derived from input and overreliance on clinical decision support systems) are main sources of ethical questions about AI in health care.

Although the stigma of the psychosis risk label can cause harm, the label can also confer benefit and provides an explanatory framework for symptoms.

Dr Sean C. McConnell provides an introduction to gene editing, and Scott J. Schweikart discusses what prudent governance requires.

During one 2014 Ebola epidemic, arrival of “safe burial” teams was often delayed. Some buried their loved ones themselves, which undermined containment efforts.

A patient’s story represents an ethical dilemma of cancer screening: it can save lives but generates diagnostic morbidity and incurs costs.