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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

If you have paid attention to medical news lately, you have almost certainly heard about some emerging uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, including oncology. Labroots has recently ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic may result in lasting changes to public and private healthcare, including changes to the patient and caregiver experience arenas. Amid the crisis, healthcare organizations have ...

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.

Patients seek care from urologists for a variety of reasons, many of which are sensitive and may be difficult to discuss.