Evidence-based medicine can help guide a physician in the clinical encounter but should not replace physician judgment or experience.

A proposal for non-disciplinary physician accountability by means of electronic medical record audits.

The organ transplantation system is viewed as one of our most equitable health care services, but poor patients are effectively excluded by policy that denies Medicaid coverage of post-transplant immunosuppressant medication.

Kevin Hosseini’s painting of his tutor’s dog, Bella.

There is a market for direct-to-consumer genetic testing and a need for better consumer information and more regulation of tests and testing laboratories.

Research questions must be answered to inform policy decisions about the hereditary diseases and conditions for which newborns should be tested.

The question of whether and how results from personal genetic testing will motivate behavioral changes in consumers has only begun to receive the research attention it richly deserves.

The alarm generated by the AIDS epidemic left civil liberties proponents fearful that traditional public health responses might be imposed on newly susceptible or infected populations.

Before new cases of HIV/AIDS will decline, more Americans must recognize that “it could happen to them.”

With good planning and good will, medical professionals’ right of conscience and patients’ rights to controversial services can be both protected and accommodated.