Considering the ethical implications of scientific innovations at the outset of a project can benefit researchers, patients, ...

Babies blink, cry, and yawn—and a few weeks into their lives, they might smile. But do these movements mean that newborns have conscious experiences of perceiving the world around them? Or are these ...

Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony Fauci, was among the health bureaucrats who received a layoff notice on Tuesday, ...

When the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine announced that it had created human embryos specifically for research purposes, it talked up the a priori endorsement of three separate panels of ...

Today is World AIDS day – and there’s a lot of rhetoric flying around about progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS, especially in overcoming fear and bigotry. Except for at one school in ...

OXFORD, England — Professor Luke Gormally, who died April 30 at the age of 83, was a towering figure who was respected and admired for his personal integrity, courage and tireless defense of life at a ...

The past few decades have seen the ascendancy of a new class of science gadfly-the professional bioethicist. During this time, researchers have sometimes found themselves in a warring stance with ...

Dr. Doug Diekema is a pediatric emergency department physician, bioethicist, and professor. He works at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he is Co-Director of Education for the Treuman Katz Center for ...

Advocates call it “right to die” or “medical aid in dying.” Opponents call it “assisted suicide.” These differences in language highlight two different views of a bill awaiting Governor Pritzker’s ...

Why Is the Trump Administration Keeping Joe Biden’s Student Loan Deferments? China’s Population Is on the Way Down Audio By Carbonatix The fear of suffering (or deprivation of personal desires) is ...

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