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Biotech
- These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too.
- The Personalized Stem Cells That Could One Day Treat Parkinson’s and Heart Failure
- A US Agency Rejected Face Recognition–and Landed in Big Trouble
Clinical/Medical
- 80-Hour Weeks and Roaches Near Your Cot? More Medical Residents Unionize
- Women Were Already Unequal in the World of Global Health. The Pandemic Made It Worse
- The Driving Test for Driverless Cars
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
- The Driving Test for Driverless Cars
- Not the Geek Squad: How One Boston Hospital Helps Patients Conquer Language Barriers–And Their Smartphones
- Directly Observed Therapy for TB Treatment, Via Video, Gets CDC Not
End of Life
- 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
- In Ukraine, Identifying the Dead Comes at Human Rights Cost
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
- 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?
- China Approves First Homegrown mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
Healthcare
- End of Covid Emergency Will Usher in Changes Across the US Health System
- A New Edition of Journal of Medical Humanities Is Now Available
- New Articles from BMC Medical Ethics Are Now Available
Human Enhancement
- Tattoos Do Odd Things to the Immune System
- World Track and Field Bans Transgender Athletes from Women’s Events
- Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?
Journal Articles
- A New Edition of European Journal of Human Genetics Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Is Now Available
Mental Health
- Social Media Is Part of a ‘Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Risk’ for Eating Disorders and Negative Body Image, Per Study
- ‘We Were Helpless’: Despair at the C.D.C. as the Pandemic Erupted
- Doctors May Miss How Addiction Patients Cheat Drug Tests
Neuroethics
- Students Struggle Academically, Fight in Schools Amid Adderall Shortage
- Study: Males Born to Mothers with COVID-19 Faced Higher Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- FDA Advisers Give Partial Backing to ALS Drug
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
- Women Were Already Unequal in the World of Global Health. The Pandemic Made It Worse
- Study Suggests Diabetes Screening Should Be Guided By Age, Not Weight
- Life is Worse for Older People Now
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
- Federal Study Calls U.S. Stillbirth Rate “Unacceptably High” and Recommends Action
- Pregnant Black? Here’s Your Drug Test
- World Track and Field Bans Transgender Athletes from Women’s Events
Research Ethics
- As Microbiome Science Forges Ahead, Will Some Be Left Behind?
- A New Edition of European Journal of Human Genetics Is Now Available
- The Personalized Stem Cells That Could One Day Treat Parkinson’s and Heart Failure
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
- 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
- Social Media Is Part of a ‘Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Risk’ for Eating Disorders and Negative Body Image, Per Study

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