Susan Gilbert

As the federal public health apparatus has been drawn into overt politics, states have begun, by necessity, asserting greater authority over immunization policy.

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“Don’t take Tylenol,” President Trump told pregnant women last week. Despite his claims, there is no evidence that Tylenol taken during pregnancy

We can improve the lives of people living with dementia, beginning with using better narratives to talk about the condition.

Regardless of one’s position on the legalization of assisted dying, how these deaths are documented on death certificates raises important ethical questions about vital statistics and individual privacy.

It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.

In a recent episode of The Pitt, two ICE agents bring a patient into the ER who was apprehended in a raid. While the episode gets a lot right, it has some shortcomings. And those shortcomings largely coincide with the inadequacies of hospital policies.

New ACOG guidelines for diagnosing endometriosis are welcome news for patients and reproductive justice.

The failure of countries that depend on migrant farm workers to guarantee professional medical interpretation for them when they get sick violates basic ethical principles and fundamental human rights.