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 ...

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 ...

After vocal opposition to his decision to join much-criticized CellTex Therapeutics, bioethicist Glenn McGee resigned from the stem cell company on February 28, reported Nature.

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, ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Why Are We Injecting $14 Billion into Iran’s War Effort . . . Against Us? Christopher Caldwell vs. President Trump Audio By Carbonatix The fear of suffering (or deprivation of personal desires) is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Ethics Center is hosting a book club on In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids by Travis Rieder. In this memoir of pain and addiction, Rieder raises several ethical issues at the ...