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Global Bioethics
Mpox vaccine rollout begins in Africa: what will success look like?
Reproductive Ethics
A Young Doctor’s Dilemma: Stay Home or Move Where Abortion Is Protected?
Artificial Intelligence
It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

Biotech
- World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
- United States sets the pace for implantable brain–computer interfaces
- California Passes Law Protecting Your Brain Data
Clinical/Medical
- Mpox vaccine rollout begins in Africa: what will success look like?
- ‘Mom, I Want to Live’: A Young Girl Battles War and Cancer
- World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
Disability Ethics
- Do not support legalizing physician-assisted suicide
- Adam Pearson is ready to roll the dice
- Woman, 79, fell while hiking. A stranger carried her for hours on his back.
Emerging Tech
- It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
- This Facial Recognition Experiment With Meta’s Smart Glasses Is a Terrifying Vision of the Future
- Shh, ChatGPT. That’s a Secret.
End of Life
- Virtual Tomb-Sweeping Keeps a Chinese Tradition Alive
- ‘Remarkable’ Boy Survived Life Support Switch-Off, Judge Says
- Carney says he wasn’t ‘comfortable’ approving end-of-life options bill; vetoes legislation
Euthanasia / Suicide
- Do not support legalizing physician-assisted suicide
- A New Edition of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Is Now Available
- Suicides steady near highest level recorded: CDC
Genetic Ethics
- World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
- In Genetic Data, Gaps That Affect Indigenous Communities
- Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?
Global Bioethics
- Mpox vaccine rollout begins in Africa: what will success look like?
- ‘Mom, I Want to Live’: A Young Girl Battles War and Cancer
- Rwanda to start vaccine trials for Marburg disease in a few weeks
Healthcare
- 1 in 3 teens can’t get tampons or pads during their periods, study finds
- New prescription drug price hikes hit Black patients hard
- Acadia Hospitals Reach $20 Million Settlement With Justice Dept.
Human Enhancement
- Plastic surgeons say the ‘ballet body’ is in. Here’s what that means.
- Antidoping Agency Lost Track of Open Cases and Test Results Before Olympics
- Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer?
Journal Articles
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
- A New Edition of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Is Now Available
Mental Health
- As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms
- Is Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed?
- The Truth About Lithium Might Never Come Out
Neuroethics
- As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms
- Is Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed?
- A new law in California protects consumers’ brain data. Some think it doesn’t go far enough.
Organ Transplantation
- Woman with Stage 4 colon cancer receives a double-lung transplant at Northwestern, becomes ‘part of medical history’
- In Historic Step, HRSA Makes First Ever Multi-Vendor Awards to Modernize the Nation’s Organ Transplant System and End the Current Contract Monopoly
- ‘For Me, There Was No Other Choice’: Inside the Global Illegal Organ Trade
Public Health
- Mpox vaccine rollout begins in Africa: what will success look like?
- Rwanda to start vaccine trials for Marburg disease in a few weeks
- Chronic diseases cause 75 percent of all deaths globally. The toll is likely to rise.
Public Policy
- A new law in California protects consumers’ brain data. Some think it doesn’t go far enough.
- Do not support legalizing physician-assisted suicide
- Abortion pills will be controlled substances in Louisiana soon. Doctors have concerns
Reproductive Ethics
- A Young Doctor’s Dilemma: Stay Home or Move Where Abortion Is Protected?
- New analysis reveals postpartum sterilization rates are higher among U.S. women with sickle cell
- Abortion pills will be controlled substances in Louisiana soon. Doctors have concerns
Research Ethics
- United States sets the pace for implantable brain–computer interfaces
- Naming the dead: Hundreds of unclaimed bodies were sent to a Texas medical school
- In Genetic Data, Gaps That Affect Indigenous Communities
Stem Cell Research
- Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
- Lab-Grown Stem Cells Could Be a ‘Breakthrough’ for Cancer Treatment
- HIV: how close are we to a vaccine — or a cure?
Women's Health
- New analysis reveals postpartum sterilization rates are higher among U.S. women with sickle cell
- Breast Cancer Continues to Rise Among Younger Women, Study Finds
- Plastic surgeons say the ‘ballet body’ is in. Here’s what that means.