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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Some people see clinical trials as a chance for a miracle cure. In reality, these experimental drug tests and medical interventions often fail. With researchers in the United States now testing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people willingly participated in the compulsory COVID-19 lockdown to “flatten the curve” of infection — that is, slow down the rate at which people became ill — to prevent hospitals from being ...

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 ...

What we used to call genetic engineering has been subject to decades of bioethical scrutiny. Then, the arrival of CRISPR — which allows researchers to cut and paste gene sequences with vastly improved ...

Photo: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune DePaul University’s Craig Klugman has spent a career pondering the moral quandaries of health and medicine — he’s a bioethicist who’s worked with the city and state ...

This is one of those rare moments where we don’t know if we should make jokes or fear for our lives. Prepare yourself. A viral video shows a bioethicist suggest we re-engineer humans to become ...