Transitions in relabeling personalized medicine as precision medicine, precision health, or wellness genomics reflect shifting the locus of responsibility for health from individuals to clinicians and in shifting focus from genetic risk to genetic enhancement.

Recent advances in UTx suggest it is on a trajectory toward becoming an accepted clinical practice to treat absolute uterine factor infertility.

Although undocumented immigrants contribute to the pool of available organs and to the US tax base, they are not eligible for organ transplantation in most US states.

Given organ scarcity, transplantation programs state that patient promises of compliance cannot be taken at face value, excluding candidates who are deemed untrustworthy.

Physicians with a mental illness can have good, empathic relationships with their patients, even if patients know of their condition.

Drs Katrina Bramstedt and Ana Iltis discuss the development of QoL assessment tools to help patient-subjects considering reconstructive transplantation.

Transplant physicians must respect indecisive patients’ autonomy while continuing to educate them during their progress towards transplantation.

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?”