This digital still from a narrated animated portrait depicts a woman overwhelmed by her body’s failure and by a health care system’s failure to care well.

A canvas of hand-carved woodblock prints in red ink and gold acrylic lettering offers a visual representation of physicians’ impulses to practice healing.

Dr Caleb Alexander examines the US Food and Drug Administration's controversial decision to approve aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

Dr Ziad Obermeyer talks about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.

Injustice is endemic to IHS operations when its stewards are forced to defer payment for patients’ nonemergent care.

Standard treatment of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes includes a pathway when “cost is a major issue.” Whether it’s just to do so remains unclear.

Judgmentalism applied to patients from poor and marginalized communities exacerbates health inequity and illuminates the importance of contextualizing a patient’s care.

HPV tests are alternatives to Pap smear screening that enable women to self-collect specimens and might be the best cervical cancer prevention strategy for many.

Inequity makes it imperative to consider how trade and patent policies influence international patients’ access to treatment and prevention.

Cervical cancer has become rare in high-income countries but is a leading cause of mortality among women in low- and middle-income countries. This inequity is an epidemiological tragedy.