Dr. Jerome Groopman is a scientist by day. As chief of experimental medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he has spent two decades developing and deploying high-tech weapons ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with vision-threatening eye diseases who belong to a racial or ethnic minority group reported feeling ...

Attention doctors: Want patients to follow your advice? Treat them with dignity, a Johns Hopkins study has found. In a national survey of more than 5,000 Americans, those who said they were treated ...

This fall, the O’Neil Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center will host a colloquium on the role of law and policy in affirming the rights of transgender ...

Although patients praise their physicians and nurses, they often feel less respected by nonclinical staff they encounter, according to NRC Health’s 2019 Healthcare Consumer Report. NRC Health, which ...

Sometimes good things do come from bad legislation. When Gov. Greg Abbott signed the “Chick-fil-A Bill” into law in 2019, David Shannon took advantage of the opportunity it presented and teamed up ...

Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact.” He provided no ...

The director of the Institute for Bioethics of the Catholic University of La Plata, Juan Carlos Caprile, said this week that respect for terminally ill patients demands they be cared for and not ...

Transplantation surgery and the illnesses that can precipitate it come with a lot of baggage. There may be years of health problems that build up to a transplant. Patients and their families can be so ...

In Parts 1 and 2 of this post, I describe my patient Jordan, a 19-year-old with cystic fibrosis (CF) who was placed on a breathing machine (ventilator) against his wish during a medical emergency.