Companies offering epigenetic testing should be more transparent about these tests’ reliability and limitations.

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

Documenting one’s assessment of a patient’s physical appearance during a clinical encounter is regarded as a key element of a clinician’s overall judgment of a patient’s health.

Dr Erin Gentry Lamb joins Ethics Talk to discuss key ideas from disability ethics that can inform our thinking about age-related biases, and Dr Kate De Medeiros describes how medicalizing aging affects our health, relationships, and sense of self.

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

Electronic health records are now critical in day-to-day health care operations.

Since health care organizations’ widespread adoption of electronic health records, clinicians’ notes about patients’ care have become longer and more cumbersome.

A national consortium of clinicians and researchers hope to accurately diagnose patients with rare diseases.

Finding an accurate diagnosis can be a long and complex process.

UDN research is complex and involves many variables, and some patient-subjects think that having enrolled in a UDN protocol was not worthwhile.