The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates the dangerous temptation to remove control over policy from democratic deliberation in ...

"Why is it that we think we can just take everything, everything, and modify it for ourselves?" asks Françoise Baylis, a world leader in the field of bioethics. "We're modifying mosquitoes so that ...

Tennessee six-month-old August Stoll finally has been approved for a much-needed heart transplant after the child had to endure a bumpy road early in his young life. Vanderbilt University Hospital ...

Advances in organoids and embryonic models of human development have the potential to prompt social and existential questions --e.g., what defines human individuality? However, bioethicists say that ...

"In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids," by Travis Rieder. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) After a motorcycle accident that almost took off his foot, Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Travis ...

WASHINGTON — As workplaces have begun to require COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, some Catholic institutions insist that conscience exemptions are necessary. In addition, priests should be allowed ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.

Dad was in the middle of making coffee when his heart stopped. From the next room of the house they shared in San Antonio, his new fiancée, Robin, heard the thud when he hit the ground. He was purple ...

On May 23, 2015, Travis Rieder jumped on his new motorcycle for a leisurely morning ride on the beautiful, winding roads of the Shenandoah Valley. Earlier that day, he had spent some quality time with ...

If you were dying wouldn’t you want access to any drug or device that might have the slightest chance of saving your life? Colorado has become the first state to enact a so-called "right to try" law ...

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