A recent journal article calls for a public policy that would require physician-researchers to demonstrate the absence of undue influence or coercion on informed consent.

A hospice volunteer relates the story of a patient who changed his mind about life support in the midst of a series of hospitalizations and surgeries.

Patients with limited English proficiency may suffer in the health care setting in the absence of clinical interpreters.

Physicians and physicians-in-training have a responsibility to speak up if they feel a medical colleague's impairment puts patients at risk.

Physicians and physicians-in-training have a responsibility to speak up if they feel a medical colleague's impairment puts patients at risk.

Little-known facts about food allergens, allergies, and labeling.

South Africa has created a Sesame Street character with HIV in order to provide age-appropriate, entertaining health education for children.

An ethical case that was eventually decided in the US Supreme Court involves the right of patients to request an independent third-party review if their HMO refuses to authorize treatments or procedures deemed medically necessary.

The threat of bioterrorism in the form of aerosolized smallpox is real, and policy is needed to clarify the risk of disease to the public and recommendations on vaccination.

The medical student believes that the art of doctoring is learned continuously over time and cannot be assessed in a proposed medical school examination.