This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. When federal health officials announced on ...

When federal health officials announced on Jan. 5 that they were taking six out of 17 vaccines off the childhood immunization schedule, they argued that the move would give parents and caregivers more ...

The traditional paternalistic approach to patient care ― in which treatment decisions are made by doctors without patient input ― is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, replaced by shared ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rather than telling a patient they should get a vaccine, the CDC’s shared clinical decision-making ...

Easing some concerns about access, a research letter published online this week in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that a US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement for shared decision ...

During an episode of the first season of “Scrubs,” Dr. Perry Cox, played by John C. McGinley, boasted to a group of clinicians that every patient that had been in the ICU when he started his shift at ...

Shared decision making (SDM) is a method of care that is suitable for the care of patients with cancer. It involves a collaborative conversation seeking to respond sensibly to the problematic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pediatricians often spend at least 10 minutes of an already-short visit discussing vaccines. Heather Hazzan, SELF Magazine When ...

When federal health officials announced on Jan. 5, 2026, that they were taking six out of 17 vaccines off the childhood immunization schedule, they argued that the move would give parents and ...