Welcome to our latest edition. We think you’ll be pleased that NexBioHealth continues to offer lively variety, with a mix of news and features not found elsewhere.

A prominent motif in this issue is ethics. Healthcare has always implicated ethical questions; most of the 2500 year-old Hippocratic Oath is concerned with a doctor’s ethical behavior. The complexity of our current system here in the US, however, is such that the difficulty of identifying the sound, ethical decision, and distinguishing it from less worthy choices, may be greater than it has ever been before. Our cover story features an interview with prominent bioethicist Arthur Caplan of NYU, who tackles several thorny, up-to-date questions with a mix of high-minded philosophical aplomb and common sense. We expand on our ethics theme with a set of articles examining equity questions arising in the management of malignancies and in the care of the disabled. The Student Hub pieces harmonize with this subject as well, looking at ethical questions in both pharmacy and medicine. After all, physicians are not the only healthcare professionals who must wrestle with ethical conundrums.

This issue also includes a timely interview with Marta Lopatynsky, MD, ophthalmologist and president of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA). With 19 branches across the US and Canada, UMANA pursues two announced goals: uniting health care professionals of Ukrainian descent, who share an interest in promoting Ukrainians’ health; and sharing medical knowledge and scientific research, emphasizing aspects of each unique to Ukrainians. Given today’s savage, disgraceful aggression against her ancestral homeland, and the precarious state of Ukraine’s support at present, especially here in the US, NexBioHealth is proud to offer a forum to Dr. Lopatynsky and to UMANA.

As you have come to expect, we offer several pieces spotlighting career matters, such as navigating the choice between personal and career objectives and how the Japanese cope with public health problems, and including in this issue reviews of books pertaining to professional growth.

Our straight medical news focuses on the COVID pandemic’s biopsychosocial Impacts on children–while some of the results are probably what you’d expect, others surprise you–and a case study of utilizing generative AI in the management of GI bleeding. (Many the case during my residency when caring for GI bleeders when I would have been glad to augment my own intelligence!) We round things out with our listing of upcoming conferences and meetings our readers may wish to attend.

Enjoy.