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Global Bioethics
Congo’s Ebola burial teams battle community anger, fatigue and fear of infection
Reproductive Ethics
A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free. But Is Anything Ever Free?
Artificial Intelligence
Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

Biotech
- Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI
- A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient
- ‘All It Will Take Is One Screw-Up’: AI Groups Race to Limit Bioweapon Risks
Clinical/Medical
- Another Heart Drug Fails, Shocking Cardiologists
- Congo’s Ebola burial teams battle community anger, fatigue and fear of infection
- Patients Are Flying to China for the Latest Cancer Treatment
Disability Ethics
- ‘The health system in Nepal is not prepared for this’
- Blind Egyptian entrepreneur’s AI app helps others ‘see’ the world
- Baby with heart defect born to surrogate must receive treatment, Texas court rules, amid multistate legal battle
Emerging Tech
- Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears
- Face Recognition Is Becoming the Norm for Dating Apps
- OpenAI, Anthropic issue dire cyber threat warning
End of Life
- Sydney Towle, Who Chronicled Her Cancer on TikTok, Dies at 26
- What to Say to Someone Who Is Dying, According to Hospice Workers
- Killing People Is Not the Same as Allowing Them to Die
Euthanasia / Suicide
- Killing People Is Not the Same as Allowing Them to Die
- ‘New York cannot force the Church’: Catholic ministries get reprieve from assisted-suicide law
- Public Horrified as OpenAI Pushes “Child After Child Into the Grave”
Genetic Ethics
- Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI
- A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient
- Screening babies’ genomes could save lives. Here’s how it would work
Global Bioethics
- Congo’s Ebola burial teams battle community anger, fatigue and fear of infection
- As Nepal identifies those killed in the floods, questions grow over China’s reporting
- Patients Are Flying to China for the Latest Cancer Treatment
Healthcare
- HHS accuses Akron Children’s, others, of insurance fraud over transgender care
- From Salmonella Eggs to Diarrhea Lettuce, Why This Has Been a Sick Hot American Summer
- Costco Sells Vacations, Gas and, Soon, Medicare Plans
Human Enhancement
- Old Age Is Not a Problem to Be Solved
- A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young
- ‘Perfectly fine with my body’: Danish PM blasts plastic surgeon’s beauty advice
Journal Articles
- AI Chatbot Use and Disclosure for Mental Health Among US Adolescents and Young Adults
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Clinical Ethics Is Now Available
Mental Health
- The Price of Privacy When It Comes to Dementia
- The Dark Side of Mindfulness
- Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
Neuroethics
- The Price of Privacy When It Comes to Dementia
- The Dark Side of Mindfulness
- World’s first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery has tumour removed
Organ Transplantation
- A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient
- Pig kidney works for a record 271 days inside the body of American patient
- Patient’s own mitochondria injected into eyes in attempt to restore vision
Public Health
- Congo’s Ebola burial teams battle community anger, fatigue and fear of infection
- AI models are being used to track zoonotic diseases. Will they prevent the next pandemic?
- Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
Public Policy
- New York City Bans A.I. in Elementary and Middle Schools
- How a Teenager’s Cancer Treatment Became a MAHA Crusade
- Queensland woman gave birth to twins with different parents after surrogacy coincides with natural pregnancy
Reproductive Ethics
- A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free. But Is Anything Ever Free?
- Why some couples are combining a European vacation with their IVF treatments
- Queensland woman gave birth to twins with different parents after surrogacy coincides with natural pregnancy
Research Ethics
- Study Suggests AI-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging
- ‘All It Will Take Is One Screw-Up’: AI Groups Race to Limit Bioweapon Risks
- The Dark Side of Mindfulness
Stem Cell Research
- A revolutionary stem-cell therapy must proceed responsibly to achieve its full potential
- AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
- Scientists are regrowing human teeth
Women's Health
- A New Startup Lets You Freeze Your Eggs For Free. But Is Anything Ever Free?
- Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
- ‘Perfectly fine with my body’: Danish PM blasts plastic surgeon’s beauty advice