The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania operates one of the country’s few centers designed to ease stress and to show compassion for caregivers with loved ones in the hospital. “In some ways, it’s really a significant statement of who we are,” says Mary Walton, director of the Family Caregiver Center.

Barb Harnly was exhausted. “It’s a tough job, it really is,” she says. “And I don’t know that you can ever really prepare for it.” Harnly is referring to the job of a...

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The implications of intensive care unit capacity strain for the care of critically ill patients.

The Influence of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Health Warning Labels on Parents' Choices.

The injustice of COVID-19: we need a moral constitution for our planet's health

The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations

"The keeping is the problem": A qualitative study of IRB-member perspectives in Botswana on the collection, use, and storage of human biological samples for research.

The Koch-Backed Right-to-Try Law Has Been a Bust — But Still Threatens Our Health

The greater threat of right-to-try is to the broad American public. As Holly Fernandez Lynch and Steven Joffe of the University of Pennsylvania warned last year in the New...

The "Ladder of Inference" as a Conflict Management Tool: Working with the "Difficult" Patient or Family in Healthcare Ethics Consultations.