Medscape Podcast

Art Caplan and James Tallon discuss their view of changes in the past 5 to 6 years, the route we have to take going forward, and the role of physicians in achieving improvements.

Martin Blaser talks with Eric Topol about how the microbiome influences health and disease, as well as what role the overuse of antibiotics may have played in the obesity epidemic.

Henry Black and George Lundberg on combating the misinformation in consumer medical news, the ethics of the physician as entertainer, and other ills that plague medical reporting.

Shared decision-making about your personal health choices is more complicated than you may realize, says Dr Lundberg.

Mitochondrial transplants raise some ethical issues, one being that a baby will have three biological parents. A leading bioethicist asks, 'What's wrong with that?'

Educating parents to avoid gluten in food is more complicated than it appears, although new FDA regulations have helped.