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 ...

Advanced artificial intelligence tools, such as large language models (LLMs), are transforming the way we handle information. They can draft text, summarize research, and even respond to medical ...

Two teams of researchers have reported that they obtained embryonic stem cells from mice using new techniques that, if proved in human cells, might overcome the ethical objections that influenced ...

Linnea Rothi ’23 is neuroscience and biology double major with a minor in public health at Santa Clara University and a 2021-22 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

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 ...

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