Policy & Ethics

The history of protecting patient’s medical records and confidentiality

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth: persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. —President John F. Kennedy

On March 6, 2018, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a 12-month randomized clinical trial [authors Erin E Krebs, Amy Gravely

Here's the title of an opinion piece in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health, which was published by four authors at the CDC:

I've written before about what happens when prisons use bad science to carry out capital punishment (1). It's not pretty.

Rheumatologists are disappearing. The physicians who care for patients with diseases due to our immune system are dwindling just as more and more patients need their attention.

At Iowa State University Crop Bioengineering Center's annual meeting, a team of scholars showed their research

William Shubb, Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, has put a halt to the champagne wishes and caviar dreams of California trial lawyers, a U.N.

Imagine your wife suffers a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night and remains unconscious. You start CPR and tell your granddaughter to call 911.

Media headlines have run amok over the so-called “stunning admission” obtained during a deposition of a former Aetna medical director whose job was to author