“Anti-aging” appears to be on the verge of adoption as a legitimate project of medical science and clinical labor and effort.

At some point along life’s trajectory, growing becomes aging. Gerotherapeutics—biologically-based approaches to health that target processes of aging—seem poised to respond. This theme issue investiga...

Editorial Fellow Dr David Oxman joins Ethics Talk to discuss the November 2025 issue of the Journal: “Electronic Health Record Evolution.”

Dr Vivek H. Murthy joins Ethics Talk to discuss loneliness as a public health threat and the connection between loneliness, public health responsiveness, and the health of our democracy.

Dr Laura Gottlieb joins Ethics Talk to discuss currently available screening methods and the difficulty in establishing causal links among structural determinants of health, interventions, and outcome...

Brett Feldman joins Ethics Talk to discuss the evolution of electronic health records in street health care practice.

This Medical News article discusses a new state-led coalition, called the Governors Public Health Alliance, to bolster disease detection and response as federal support wanes.

This Medical News article is an interview with Katherine R. Tuttle, MD, education committee co-chair of Kidney Week 2025 and a professor of medicine at the University of Washington.

Neuroscientist Dr Daniel J. Levitin and therapeutic musician Judy Friesem join Ethics Talk to discuss how music affects the brain and what role music can have in peace-making in clinical settings.

Patients’ charts once hung at the feet of their hospital beds, and their purpose was to serve as the record of care for a particular patient. Now, electronic health records (EHRs) have several functio...

Little guidance exists about best practices for how clinical teams should respond to children’s unmet needs.

Existential health care ethics is a field aimed at addressing ethical questions about intersections of human extinction and health care.

The American Medical Association declares that physicians will address “natural and man-made assaults on the health and wellbeing of humankind,” and that “[h]umanity is our patient.” The World Medical...

Editorial Fellow Dr Molly Nguyen joins Ethics Talk to discuss the July 2025 issue of the Journal, co-curated with Dr Tanya Shenoy: “Rural US Emergency Medical Services.”

Despite their essential functions, rural EMS systems are often underfunded and understaffed to the point at which health equity is severely compromised.

Emergency medical services (EMS) are the most immediate health care resource for many US residents living in rural areas. We all rely on EMS to coordinate deployment of networks of transporters, first...

Artists make marks with their bodies; in turn, art marks the body, and this reciprocal marking sometimes demands clinical and ethical responses. Some artists’ relationships with physically toxic media...

Dr Christine Slobogin joins Ethics Talk to discuss what embodiment is and why clinicians need to know about it.

As private equity funds acquire a growing share of America’s health care system, their focus has expanded from hospitals and nursing homes to physician practices.

Private equity margin maximization and profit-making strategies focus on acquisition, short-term ownership, and sale of health care entities, including residency program opportunities.

Private equity firms’ acquisition and management of physicians’ practices have been associated with increased cost and diminished quality.

Private equity companies have no ethical or legal duties to patients and strive to maximize financial returns for their investors.

This article explains how some investment practices of private equity firms generate profit by taking advantage of inequitably underserved patients in the US health care system.

Inequity in access to care and life expectancy among the highest and lowest income earners has grown, along with profits of nonclinical actors in health care.

One way private equity differs from other for-profit investments is by aiming to maximize profitability while minimizing long-term holdings in such investments. Valuation for private equity acquisitio...

This article considers AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinions relevant to the care of patients who are incarcerated.

The US has the most individuals who are incarcerated worldwide.

Dr Carlie Arbaugh joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Kimberly E. Kopecky: “How Should Senior Surgeons Help Junior Colleagues and Trainees Experiencing Regret?”

Safety-net hospitals care for patients who are incarcerated and are key environments in which surgical trainees learn to wield their professional autonomy.

Surgeons have important legal and ethical obligations to patients who are incarcerated and accompanied by carceral facility personnel.

Incarceration history adds to the clinical and ethical complexity of surgical care for patients who require an ostomy, especially when secondary to trauma.

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation. Developing and maintaining clinically and ethically appropriate surgical care for incarcerees requires clinicians, health c...

Patients’ rights to evidence-based standard of care should not be compromised for patients who are incarcerated.

Patients who are incarcerated lack timely access to safe, quality surgical care.

Dr Kinnon MacKinnon joins Ethics Talk to discuss what we know about regret experiences of patients following transition-related care and, just as importantly, what we don’t.

Dr Kinnon MacKinnon joins Ethics Talk to discuss what we know about regret experiences of patients following transition-related care and, just as importantly, what we don’t.