A description of therapeutic applications of art making in the elderly population.

Health care professionals and those who teach them must be prepared to examine the implications of carbon dioxide emissions on human well-being and make decisive steps towards sustainability.

As a matter of medical ethics, physicians must address the health care needs of and be advocates for family caregivers of their patients with dementia.

Medicare reimbursement practices have brought the hospital to the center of the American medical system, to the detriment of primary care.

A medical student's perspective on the importance of empathy in patient-physician relationships and a reflection on how empathy was taught in his medical school.

Adaptive, simulation-based Internet training sites with intelligent agents can offer medical students a virtual clinic for learning about the process and multiple outcomes of patient decision making.

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

Artwork by Kyle T. Amber.

Each month, a new article or book chapter on bioethics will be featured to illustrate points of ethical reasoning and promote discussion about the topic.

The experience of an English professor dying of ovarian cancer in Margaret Edson’s play Wit shows that both literary and medical discourse obfuscate and objectify rather than promote communication of “simple human truths” that dignify life and death.