Physicians must maintain a delicate balance between patient autonomy and preventing harm when faced with patients who refuse treatment.

Personal, social, economic, and environmental factors all contribute to the increased incidence of cardiovascular disease in the United States.

Identifies the principal causes of ischemic stroke and approaches to preventing recurrences.

The AAP’s guidelines on lipid screening for children raise concerns about the fundamental purpose of prevention and its role in balancing individual autonomy with the benefits of society at large.

Strategies to manage hypertension and prehypertension are available.

Physicians’ ethical obligations to disclose conflicts of interest to patients and to obtain their informed consent for treatment are particularly critical when proposed treatments are experimental.

Medical technology presents a new ethical question in the case of a patient with a left ventricular assist device who, when informed that he has pneumonia and is ineligible for a heart transplant, asks that the LVAD be turned off.

Medical technology presents a new ethical question in the case of a patient with a left ventricular assist device who, when informed that he has pneumonia and is ineligible for a heart transplant, asks that the LVAD be turned off.

A review of three journal articles shows the significant impact that poverty has on physical and mental health status, as well as all causes of mortality.

Physicians should practice bias-reduction strategies in their treatment plans for and attitudes toward overweight and obese patients.