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Biotech
- Musk’s Brain Implant Company in Search of Human Trials Partner
- These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too.
- The Personalized Stem Cells That Could One Day Treat Parkinson’s and Heart Failure
Clinical/Medical
- A New Edition of HEC Forum Is Now Available
- Musk’s Brain Implant Company in Search of Human Trials Partner
- Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows ‘Sparks’ of General Intelligence
Disability Ethics
- Being ‘Socially Frail’ Comes with Health Risks for Older Adults
- It’s Official: No More Crispr Babies–for Now
- New DNA Tests Predict Your Disease Risk–Are We Ready for Them?
Emerging Tech
- Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows ‘Sparks’ of General Intelligence
- Pushback Grows Over Mental Health Impacts of Social Media
- Levi’s Will Use AI Models Alongside Human Ones
End of Life
- ‘Live Free and Die?’ The Sad State of U.S. Life Expectancy
- Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End
- Deaths in Custody Are a Crisis, But Data on Them Is a Black Hole, a New Report Says
Euthanasia / Suicide
- Conn. Woman 1st Non-Vermonter Granted Assisted Suicide Right
- A New Edition of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Is Now Available
- A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?
Genetic Ethics
- A New Edition of European Journal of Human Genetics Is Now Available
- W.H.O Accuses China of Hiding Data That May Link Covid’s Origins to Animals
- New Articles from BMC Medical Ethics Are Now Available
Global Bioethics
- In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up
- Women Were Already Unequal in the World of Global Health. The Pandemic Made It Worse
- As Microbiome Science Forges Ahead, Will Some Be Left Behind?
Healthcare
- How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
- End of Covid Emergency Will Usher in Changes Across the US Health System
- A New Edition of Journal of Medical Humanities Is Now Available
Human Enhancement
- U.S. Bishops’ New Guidelines Aim to Limit Trans Health Care
- Tattoos Do Odd Things to the Immune System
- World Track and Field Bans Transgender Athletes from Women’s Events
Journal Articles
- A New Edition of HEC Forum Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Neuroethics Is Now Available
- A New Edition of European Journal of Human Genetics Is Now Available
Mental Health
- Pushback Grows Over Mental Health Impacts of Social Media
- The Unseen Asian American Mental Health Crisis
- Teen Overdose Deaths Have Doubled in Three Years. Blame Fentanyl.
Neuroethics
- Musk’s Brain Implant Company in Search of Human Trials Partner
- Food Insecurity Can Drive Faster Rates of Cognitive Decline
- Teen Overdose Deaths Have Doubled in Three Years. Blame Fentanyl.
Organ Transplantation
- Long-Troubled Transplant System to Get an Overhaul
- Living Kidney Donors Rely on a Promise to Protect Our Future Health. We’re Scared It Will Go Away
- U.S. Organ Transplant System, Troubled by Long Wait Times, Faces an Overhaul
Public Health
- ‘Lessons Have Not Been Learned’: FDA Knew of Positive Test Month Before Latest Infant Formula Recall
- ‘Live Free and Die?’ The Sad State of U.S. Life Expectancy
- The Unseen Asian American Mental Health Crisis
Public Policy
- Utah Governor Signs Bill Requiring Teens to Get Parental Approval to Join Social Media Sites
- Long-Troubled Transplant System to Get an Overhaul
- World Track and Field Bans Transgender Athletes from Women’s Events
Reproductive Ethics
- In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up
- Federal Study Calls U.S. Stillbirth Rate “Unacceptably High” and Recommends Action
- Pregnant Black? Here’s Your Drug Test
Research Ethics
- A New Edition of HEC Forum Is Now Available
- Musk’s Brain Implant Company in Search of Human Trials Partner
- U.S. Bishops’ New Guidelines Aim to Limit Trans Health Care
Stem Cell Research
- The Personalized Stem Cells That Could One Day Treat Parkinson’s and Heart Failure
- How Stem Cells Make a Human Brain
- Scientists Create Mice with Cells from Two Males for First Time
Women's Health
- In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up
- Women Were Already Unequal in the World of Global Health. The Pandemic Made It Worse
- World Track and Field Bans Transgender Athletes from Women’s Events

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