The VA works with federal, state, and community agencies to ameliorate the homeless veteran problem and some of its causes.

Physicians must consider clinical and ethical questions with patients who request in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

An argument is made for integrating Spanish language instruction into education of the interdisciplinary health care team, if not into the medical education of physicians per se.

Rates of referral to a cardiologist, which markedly improves cardiovascular outcomes, differ significantly based on nonclinical patient characteristics.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinion on racial and ethnic health care disparities.

Those who survived Hurricanes Katrina and Rita faced homelessness and physical and mental health problems that created ethical dilemmas for physicians.

The VA works with federal, state, and community agencies to ameliorate the homeless veteran problem and some of its causes.

Two journal articles identify the important relationships that the field of social epidemiology has uncovered between poverty and health.

Increased use of emergency departments for primary care puts undue burden on EDs; however, EMTALA obligates EDs to provide care to patients regardless of their ability to pay.

Two bioethicists argue that prenatal disability screening promotes negativity toward the disabled and gives parents the ability to selectively form families.