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Biotech
- The Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?
- World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
- United States sets the pace for implantable brain–computer interfaces
Clinical/Medical
- U.S. Races to Replenish Storm-Battered Supplies of IV Fluids at Hospitals
- Medical Facilities in Milton’s Path Are Preparing With Closures and Barricades
- TV Medical Dramas Are Not Like Real Life. Maybe They Should Be.
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
- Posts encouraging eating disorders were recommended to X users
- Chemistry Nobel goes to developers of AlphaFold AI that predicts protein structures
- TikTok Faces Barrage of Lawsuits Around Teens and Mental Health
End of Life
- Death Has Two Timelines
- Virtual Tomb-Sweeping Keeps a Chinese Tradition Alive
- ‘Remarkable’ Boy Survived Life Support Switch-Off, Judge Says
Euthanasia / Suicide
- West Virginia ballots will include a constitutional question on prohibiting physician-assisted death
- Do not support legalizing physician-assisted suicide
- A New Edition of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Is Now Available
Genetic Ethics
- Nobel Prize in medicine goes to two American biologists for work on the discovery of microRNA
- World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
- In Genetic Data, Gaps That Affect Indigenous Communities
Global Bioethics
- So, Are You Pregnant Yet? China’s In-Your-Face Push for More Babies.
- Access questions hang over Gilead’s HIV shot
- CDC to screen travelers for Marburg, as outbreak of Ebola-like disease grows
Healthcare
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
- The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
- Access questions hang over Gilead’s HIV shot
Human Enhancement
- “Concierge wellness” becomes a new primary care
- 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
Journal Articles
- A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine AI Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Clinical Ethics Is Now Available
- A New Edition of Nursing Ethics Is Now Available
Mental Health
- She Had Thoughts of Harming Her Baby. To Treat Her, Doctors Kept Them Together.
- LGBTQ+ women face disproportionate rates of mental health issues and barriers to care
- Posts encouraging eating disorders were recommended to X users
Neuroethics
- She Had Thoughts of Harming Her Baby. To Treat Her, Doctors Kept Them Together.
- TikTok Faces Barrage of Lawsuits Around Teens and Mental Health
- Another Reason to Hate Ticks
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
- Another Reason to Hate Ticks
- CDC to screen travelers for Marburg, as outbreak of Ebola-like disease grows
- A New Edition of Clinical Ethics Is Now Available
Public Policy
- How ‘Snowflake Babies’ Could Change IVF Politics
- TikTok Faces Barrage of Lawsuits Around Teens and Mental Health
- West Virginia ballots will include a constitutional question on prohibiting physician-assisted death
Reproductive Ethics
- How ‘Snowflake Babies’ Could Change IVF Politics
- She Had Thoughts of Harming Her Baby. To Treat Her, Doctors Kept Them Together.
- The Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?
Research Ethics
- Chemistry Nobel goes to developers of AlphaFold AI that predicts protein structures
- The Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?
- United States sets the pace for implantable brain–computer interfaces
Stem Cell Research
- The Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?
- Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
- Lab-Grown Stem Cells Could Be a ‘Breakthrough’ for Cancer Treatment
Women's Health
- She Had Thoughts of Harming Her Baby. To Treat Her, Doctors Kept Them Together.
- LGBTQ+ women face disproportionate rates of mental health issues and barriers to care
- Posts encouraging eating disorders were recommended to X users