Used by one-third of US adults and the majority of teens, the social media platform TikTok, has emerged as a hotbed for social and political commentary. Viral TikTok content regularly amasses millions of views and hundreds of thousan...

The Pitt has been praised not only for its superb writing, direction, and acting, but also for its accuracy. For example, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust (who is also an emergency physician) has lauded it as

Bioethics exists to help us think clearly about difficult medical decisions, especially when those decisions affect individuals who cannot speak for themselves. At its core, bioethics asks a set of enduring questions: Who decides? Who bears the risks? And what obligations do we have to protect the most vulnerable?

These questions arise across medicine, but they ...

Our research team has recently completed a pilot study with groups of older adults (N=11) and family care partners (N=9) to interact with Sava, our humanoid Pepper robot that is trained to assist with conversation and emotional support. We studied the potential effects of...

My great-aunt chose medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Alberta, Canada. It was sad – all death is – but it brought us comfort knowing that her death was autonomous, compassionate and mattered. And now, legislation threatens to take that choice away from others.

On March 18th, Alberta introduced Bill 18: the Safeguards for Last Resort Terminatio...