The " Latina epidemiological paradox " revisited: the role of birthplace and acculturation in predicting infant low birth weight for Latinas in Los Angeles, CA. The practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. By individual clinical expertise we mean the proficiency and judgment t...

ONC was created in 2004 by President George W. Bush to help expand the use of health information technology (IT) across the country. Over the past 10 years, thanks in great part to the enactment of the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) provisions in the American Recovery and Revitalization Act (ARRA), we have passed the tipping point in the adoption of heal...

Neurology 2012;79:117–118 In view of the sacred covenant of physicians, the Hippocratic Oath, the medical community continually strives to provide timely and appropriate medical care to all patients without consideration of person, place, or insurance status. Some would purport that medical triage, acute care, and long-term follow-up in the United States are ethical, appropriate, and nonbiased,...

I agree with Professor ter Meulen that there is no need to make a forced choice between “justice” and “solidarity” when it comes to determining what should count as fair access to needed health care. But he also asserts that solidarity is more fundamental than justice. That claim needs critical assessment. Ter Meulen recognizes that the concept of solidarity has been criticized for being excess...