May 29, 2020
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April 20, 2020
History Shows That When Prejudice Overrides Science, Public Health Is at Risk
April 6, 2020
A New Edition of The New England Journal of Medicine Is Now Available
April 1, 2020
Dr. James T. Goodrich, Who Operated on Conjoined Twins, Dies at 73
March 27, 2020
A New Edition of The American Journal of Bioethics Is Now Available
March 24, 2020
A New Edition of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Is Now Available
December 20, 2019
Unorthodox Alzheimer’s Researcher Robert Moir Dies at Age 58
December 19, 2019
Rogue Stem-Cell Salesman Davide Vannoni Dies
December 18, 2019
How an Economist Helped Thousands Get a New Kidney
October 23, 2019
Scientist Gets £2m Decades After He Invented Diabetes Test
October 21, 2019
U.S. Initiative Grapples with Ethical Questions on Brain Research
October 14, 2019
Species Membership Should Not Carry Instant Right to Life
October 10, 2019
Former GP Spurs 20+ Retractions Over Forced Transplants from Chinese Patients
October 7, 2019
Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Discovering How Cells Sense and Adapt to Oxygen Levels
October 4, 2019
‘It’s Really a Horrific Situation’: What One Doctor Thinks About Drug Shortages, and How to Solve Them
September 13, 2019
The Redemption of James Wilson, Gene Therapy Pioneer
August 12, 2019
Can Learning About Ethics Actually Make Us More Ethical People?
July 22, 2019
Daniel Callahan, a Pioneer in Bioethics, Dies at 88
July 16, 2019
Head of Planned Parenthood Groups Departs, Cites Differences over Abortion
June 19, 2019
South Africa Euthanasia Activist Convicted of Murder
June 14, 2019
What Medicine Can Learn from Doctors and Researchers with Disabilities
March 22, 2019
IVF Ethics Pioneer Mary Warnock Dies
(BBC) – The philosopher and IVF ethics pioneer Baroness Mary Warnock has died at the age of 94. She chaired a number of inquiries to inform government policy. They included a report which led to the creation of the Human … Read More
March 13, 2019
Renowned Sudanese Geneticist Behind Bars for Opposing Regime
(Science) – A leading Sudanese geneticist has been imprisoned for speaking out against the country’s repressive regime. Muntaser Ibrahim, who heads the University of Khartoum’s Institute of Endemic Diseases, was arrested on 21 February in Khartoum and has been detained … Read More
March 5, 2019
FDA Chief Gottlieb Resigns
(Reuters) – U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said on Tuesday he plans to step down in a month, calling into question how the agency will handle critical issues such as e-cigarette use among teens and efforts to … Read More
February 27, 2019
Bill Jenkins, Who Helped End the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Has Died at Age 73
(CNN) – Bill Jenkins had already started a promising career in public health in the mid-1960s when he learned about one of the darkest chapters in American medical history: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Jenkins, an epidemiologist, played a significant role … Read More
