Advances in epigenetic age estimation are now applied in actuarial science to try to make risk assessment more precise.

Dr Diya Uberoi joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Abby Rud: “How Old Are You, Actuarily?”

Electronic health records can be hard for people with a range of disabilities to access, which demands ethical and legal attention.

This commentary offers best-practice recommendations about informed consent processes and patient-clinician relationship formation.

Despite broad awareness of impending existential threats to humanity, protections from these threats are not yet widely recognized as human rights.

This article investigates roles of storytelling in human evolution and how sharing stories informs embodied experiences.

Preethi Subbiah joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Richard M. Scheffler: “When Does Private Equity Ownership of Physician Practices Violate ‘First, Do No Harm’?”

One driver of the corporatization of medicine has been private equity firms’ acquisitions of physician practices.

Capital and staff shortages have forced many rural hospitals to close. Private equity investment in rural hospitals has been one solution to these problems.

Private equity investments in health care have grown to over $750 billion in the past decade and include every segment of the US health sector.