For aspiring doctors, confronting ethical dilemmas begins long before encountering them in clinical settings. During the medical school interview process, applicants are often asked to discuss how ...

For all the political controversy over whether Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state and should be allowed to die, neurologists and ethicists said yesterday that the case presents few ...

Abortion raises many ethical questions. Determining whether an abortion is needed to save a pregnant person’s life or health is not among them. That’s a factual question requiring medical — not ...

A Memorial Hermann surgeon accused of altering records in a transplant database is one of just several stories stemming from Houston-area hospitals in recent memory that raise complicated questions ...

Feb 3 (Reuters) - On Jan. 23, as the cleanup from Winter Storm Jonas began outside of my apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a patient posed a seemingly straightforward question to me: ...

This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

Brain organoids, pictured here, raise both many medical possibilities and ethical questions. NIAID/Flickr, CC BY-SA Our recent focus on brain organoid research – 3D lab models grown from human stem ...

Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

Q: I have a question regarding prolonging life. My mom had a stroke and the doctor insisted she’d have pain without a feeding tube. I don’t believe this is true. In any case, do I have a moral ...

In 2016, Canada became one of the few countries in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia. Since the passage of the new rules, people living there with a “grievous and irremediable medical ...

Overview:  AI chatbots are rapidly entering sensitive spaces like healthcare and law, raising critical questions about safety ...

Adriana Smith, a 31-year-old Georgia nurse and mother, was just eight weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead in February after suffering a medical condition. However, the family claims the ...