How can rapid advancements in medical technology, questions about the criteria for brain death and the rise of transhumanism ...

Every year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organizes a Bioethics Symposium to bring together distinguished scholars from diverse backgrounds and explore topics that ...

Healthcare professionals have to change their perspective from viewing data as an asset to viewing patients as stakeholders whose trust underpins the entire system.

Dr. Marielle Gross is the founder and CEO of heny, a decentralized biobank. Here’s where she says the blockchain and medical research studies overlap. Members of the heny team. CEO Marielle Gross is ...

The origin of medical ethics often boils down to the now-common expression “do no harm.” While an updated version of the Hippocratic Oath is still administered to many physicians as they begin their ...

Research into the medical use of psychedelics to treat mental health is on the rise, but the impact of this research remains unclear. To address questions around this issue, the Center for Medical ...

The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) is urging the U.S. Senate to reject bill S.5, which would provide taxpayer money to support embryonic stem-cell research, a technique that requires the ...

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. For decades, rancorous debate about the ruling ...

Georgetown’s department of philosophy debuted a new minor in philosophy and bioethics this fall. The Class of 2014 will be the first class allowed to pursue the minor, which requires six classes — ...