Should Aging Be Treated?

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

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Aging Is Bad for You?

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...

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Editorial Fellow Interview: “Promises and Perils of Electronic Health Records”

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

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Ethics Talk: Why Should We Think of Loneliness in Terms of Democracy?

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.

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Ethics Talk: Ethical and Clinical Complexities of SDoH Screening and Follow-Up

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...

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Ethics Talk: How Do Street Clinicians Use EHRs?

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

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US Governors Launch Multistate Public Health Coalition

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.

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Kidney Week 2025 Highlights

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.

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Ethics Talk: Therapeutic Music and Peace in Health Care

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.

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Electronic Health Record Evolution

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...

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How Should Clinical Teams Integrate Findings From Social Needs Screenings Into Children’s Care Plans?

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

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Existential Health Care Ethics

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

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Existential Health Care Ethics

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...

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Editorial Fellow Interview: “What Makes Rural EMS in the US a Health Equity Concern?”

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.”

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What Makes Rural EMS in the US a Health Equity Concern?

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

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Rural US Emergency Medical Services

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...

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Embodiment in Art Practice

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...

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Ethics Talk: Whose Bodies Should Be Represented in Art?

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

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Can Current Legal Tools Respond Adequately to Risks of Private Equity Investment in Health Care?

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.

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Should Private Equity Firms Own Residency Slots?

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

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When and How Should Patients Be Informed About Clinicians’ or Organizations’ Sale of a Clinical Practice to a Private Equity Buyer?

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

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What Are Physicians’ Duties to Patients When They Sell Their Practices?

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

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Health Inequity Profiteering by Private Equity Firms

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.

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