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Global Bioethics
Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’
Reproductive Ethics
DOJ will investigate doctors who provide trans care to minors, attorney general says
Artificial Intelligence
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw

Biotech
- Stem cells to treat Parkinson’s? 2 small studies hint at success
- Drug Development Is Slowing Down After Cuts at the FDA
- FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure
Clinical/Medical
- A Christian Medical School Opens for the First Time in 40 Years
- DOJ will investigate doctors who provide trans care to minors, attorney general says
- Whooping Cough Cases Are Rising Again in the U.S., Challenging Health Departments
Disability Ethics
- Radioactive Man
- AI Tools Helped Restore Speech for a Woman With Paralysis: ‘She Felt Embodied’
- ‘I could live 30 years but plan to die’: How assisted dying law is dividing Canadians
Emerging Tech
- ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
- Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
- FDA Warns of Side Effects of Popular Hair-Loss Drug Sold by Telehealth Companies
End of Life
- ‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
- Terri Schiavo’s death 20 years ago sparked lingering debate about death and politics
- What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more
Euthanasia / Suicide
- How to get older men to socialize is a puzzle. A group called ROMEO is one answer
- ‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
- A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
Genetic Ethics
- The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism
- Whole-genome sequencing susses out rare diseases
- How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate
Global Bioethics
- Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’
- Fentanyl Pipeline: How a Chinese Prison Helped Fuel a Deadly Drug Crisis in the United States
- AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
Healthcare
- The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE
- ACA preventive care case reaches Supreme Court
- Arkansas PBM law could spur lookalike restrictions
Human Enhancement
- DOJ will investigate doctors who provide trans care to minors, attorney general says
- FDA Warns of Side Effects of Popular Hair-Loss Drug Sold by Telehealth Companies
- Longevity Clinics Around the World Are Selling Unproven Treatments
Journal Articles
- A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
- Care of Patients Who Are Incarcerated
- A New Edition of American Journal of Law & Medicine Is Now Available
Mental Health
- How to get older men to socialize is a puzzle. A group called ROMEO is one answer
- Suicides and Rape at a Prized Mental Health Center
- Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment?
Neuroethics
- Driving with COVID linked to higher crash risk
- Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment?
- Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases?
Organ Transplantation
- A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
- FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure
- A New Edition of Public Health Ethics is Now Available
Public Health
- Driving with COVID linked to higher crash risk
- Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’
- How to get older men to socialize is a puzzle. A group called ROMEO is one answer
Public Policy
- DOJ will investigate doctors who provide trans care to minors, attorney general says
- Key FDA drug data goes missing amid DOGE cuts
- The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE
Reproductive Ethics
- DOJ will investigate doctors who provide trans care to minors, attorney general says
- U.S. Fertility Rate Remains Near Record Low
- A New Edition of Journal of Medical Ethics Is Now Available
Research Ethics
- The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism
- A New Edition of American Journal of Law & Medicine Is Now Available
- Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory
Stem Cell Research
- Stem cells to treat Parkinson’s? 2 small studies hint at success
- Pain pathway in a dish could aid search for new analgesic drugs
- Ethically Sourced “Spare” Human Bodies Could Revolutionize Medicine
Women's Health
- U.S. Fertility Rate Remains Near Record Low
- Suicides and Rape at a Prized Mental Health Center
- Cofertility’s radical model for women: Freeze your eggs for free by donating half of them