Public awareness of brain death is based largely on inaccurate media representations. It’s no wonder so few of us understand brain death.

Death’s legal definition must be responsive to advances in technology, and it must delineate between life and death. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult.

Some technological and policy strategies for increasing organ supplies are ethically and legally proven to work. Consider best next steps for global education efforts to raise organ donation awareness.

The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

Designation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population would not solve problems of access to care.

All of us are called upon to support candidates who personify respect, compassion, and empathy if we hope to realize a more fair and just future.

Limited language proficiency is a driver of health inequity and exacerbates other social determinants of health.

Physicians and pharmacists play key roles in addressing social determinants of health and health inequity.

Some refugees’ illness experiences preclude them from testifying and accurately representing their own interests during asylum adjudication proceedings.

As health professionals, DACA recipients increase diversity in the health care work force and are well positioned to promote health equity.