Understanding today’s corporatization of U.S. health care requires seeing it from a historical perspective, as a process that began with a change in the business model of care delivery in the 1920s.

For many people, the topic of death brings up a lot of “bad stuff.” But what if there was a way to discuss death in a good ...

Why Republicans think that insurance should be tied to employment — and that it’s not essential to have at all.

We firmly believe in the principles of medical neutrality and that safe access to healthcare for all must be protected in areas and times of conflict ...

Two centuries ago, liberal theorist John Stuart Mill wrote in his classic, On Liberty, that human liberty requires freedom of ...

Severe threats to the health of humans and other species derive from degradation of Earth's life-support systems, particularly the impacts of climate change. Researchers and practitioners in clinical ...

Introduction Ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos, which means human behavior, habits and a series of acquired traits and attributes that are accepted as moral principles [1, 2, 3]. Medical ...

While a postmortem has confirmed that Susan Kamengere was strangled on her hospital bed, the excuse given for her admission raises a critical matter in health care.

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Although artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a tool used in health care, the human aspect of health care is ...

Is It Fair for a Doctor’s Mom to Get Faster Emergency-Room Care? What would probably have been a five-hour ordeal for most took less than 70 minutes.