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Global Bioethics
Book Review: The Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease in Rural Colombia
Reproductive Ethics
Childhood trauma linked to higher risk of endometriosis in adult women
Artificial Intelligence
Protecting the vulnerable, or automating harm? AI’s double-edged role in spotting abuse

Biotech
- Tiny human hearts grown in pig embryos for the first time
- Glow-in-the-dark axolotls reveal a clue in the mystery of limb regeneration
- Assisted suicide implant invented for dementia patients
Clinical/Medical
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
- The Young Adults Living with Cancer
- Childhood trauma linked to higher risk of endometriosis in adult women
Disability Ethics
- Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in opinion that could affect education access lawsuits
- Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die?
- Outrage over Democrat state’s sneaky attempt to quietly pass assisted suicide bill
Emerging Tech
- Tech Billionaires Are Making a Risky Bet with Humanity’s Future
- The Gentle Singularity
- ‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
End of Life
- Boil in the bag funerals could be given go-ahead
- A Computer Wrote My Mother’s Obituary
- Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.
Euthanasia / Suicide
- New York’s Assisted-Suicide Mistake
- A Killer Within Easy Reach
- Lawmakers approve bill that would allow medically assisted suicide for terminally ill
Genetic Ethics
- Book Review: The Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease in Rural Colombia
- Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale
- The Ethical Minefield of Testing Infants for Incurable Diseases
Global Bioethics
- Book Review: The Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease in Rural Colombia
- Third Chinese national accused of smuggling biological materials into Michigan
- AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon
Healthcare
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
- Menstrual tracking app users cautioned about risks
- Why doctors should look for ways to prescribe hope
Human Enhancement
- Tech Billionaires Are Making a Risky Bet with Humanity’s Future
- These Diabetes Drugs Are Finding New Life as an Antiaging Hack
- A New Edition of Neuroethics Is Now Available
Journal Articles
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Neuroethics Is Now Available
Mental Health
- Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI’s public feed
- With Rick Perry’s backing and $50 million from the state, Texas set to become a leader in psychedelics research
- Alcohol-related liver disease deaths double in two decades
Neuroethics
- Book Review: The Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease in Rural Colombia
- Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in opinion that could affect education access lawsuits
- With Rick Perry’s backing and $50 million from the state, Texas set to become a leader in psychedelics research
Organ Transplantation
- Tiny human hearts grown in pig embryos for the first time
- Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.
- Robert Jarvik, 79, Dies; a Designer of the First Permanent Artificial Heart
Public Health
- CDC backtracks on layoffs, rehires more than 400 people
- Alcohol-related liver disease deaths double in two decades
- Third Chinese national accused of smuggling biological materials into Michigan
Public Policy
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
- New York’s Assisted-Suicide Mistake
- A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available
Reproductive Ethics
- Childhood trauma linked to higher risk of endometriosis in adult women
- The Real Fertility Crisis: The Pursuit of Reproductive Agency in a Changing World
- A Day With One Abortion Pill Prescriber
Research Ethics
- Tiny human hearts grown in pig embryos for the first time
- CDC backtracks on layoffs, rehires more than 400 people
- With Rick Perry’s backing and $50 million from the state, Texas set to become a leader in psychedelics research
Stem Cell Research
- ‘My life was saved by a stranger on the other side of the world’
- Stem cells coaxed into most advanced amniotic sacs ever grown in the lab
- Stem cells to treat Parkinson’s? 2 small studies hint at success
Women's Health
- Childhood trauma linked to higher risk of endometriosis in adult women
- Menstrual tracking app users cautioned about risks
- Younger Asian American women had the second-lowest breast cancer rate. Why they’re now tied for No. 1.