November 1, 2024
(The Guardian) – Politicians say use of common yet toxic paraquat can’t be justified due to apparent health and environment risks More than 50 US lawmakers are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to join dozens of other countries … Read More
November 1, 2024
(Associated Press) – Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash … Read More
November 1, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 15, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 30, 2024
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 91, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 25, 2024
(Associated Press) – Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are cracking down on a troubling spread of child sexual abuse imagery created through artificial intelligence technology — from manipulated photos of real children to graphic depictions of computer-generated kids. Justice … Read More
October 22, 2024
(Axios) – Infant death rates were higher than expected for several months after the Supreme Court struck down the federal right to abortion, with most of the increase coming from infants with birth defects, researchers reported on Monday in JAMA … Read More
October 18, 2024
(The Atlantic) – For all the upheaval that followed the overturn of Roe v. Wade, it did not dramatically change the most basic fact about abortions in America: the number. Since 2022, abortions in the United States have held steady—even … Read More
October 17, 2024
(BBC) – Italy has made it illegal for couples to go abroad to have a baby through surrogacy. The move extends a ban on the practice inside the country to also include those who seek it out in places where … Read More
October 10, 2024
(BBC) – Proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life are to be introduced in Parliament this month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is putting forward the bill and said “now … Read More
October 9, 2024
(Politico) – The practice has long been embraced by Christian families who might otherwise have qualms about IVF, because it can be seen as a solution to the most troubling part of the process: the disposal of frozen embryos. Lately, … Read More
October 8, 2024
(New York Times) – Thirteen states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the company of creating an intentionally addictive app that harmed children and teenagers while making false claims to the public about its commitment to … Read More
October 8, 2024
(Metro News) – West Virginians who vote in the coming general election will have a question posed about whether the state constitution should be amended to explicitly prohibit physician-assisted deaths. Amendment One, which presents a heavy question about life and … Read More
October 8, 2024
Clinical Ethics (vol. 19, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 7, 2024
(ABC News) – The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The justices did not detail their reasoning for keeping in … Read More
October 7, 2024
(New York Times) – NetChoice, backed by tech giants including Meta and Google, has successfully argued in court that Big Tech hosts protected speech. The Kids Online Safety Act was “bad on policy and bad on the law,” the lobby, … Read More
October 4, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Tech companies collect brain data that could be used to infer our thoughts—so it’s vital we get legal protections right. On September 28, California became the second US state to officially recognize the importance of mental … Read More
October 3, 2024
(The Times Weekly) – Since our health care system does not treat everyone equally, the practice of physician – assisted suicide raises the risk for those who often do not get the same access and treatment as others. This includes … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – On Tuesday, Louisiana will become the first state in the U.S. to categorize two widely used abortion pills as “controlled dangerous substances.” Opponents argue the classification could have catastrophic impacts in a state that already has a … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Technopedia) – Amendments to California’s Consumer Privacy Act now include “neural data” under the category of “personal sensitive information,” which includes biometrics. This comes at a critical time when many neurotechology companies are creating products to read, interpret, and collect … Read More
October 1, 2024
(New York Times) – The state said that despite a doctor’s recommendation and state law, a Catholic hospital declined to provide an abortion because fetal heart tones were present. Officials in the attorney general’s office say they believe this to … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and … Read More
September 30, 2024
(The Verge) – SB 1047 would have required the state’s biggest AI companies to implement security measures designed to protect the public from harm. California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act … Read More
September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Two members of Congress have asked an inspector general to investigate whether the top federal regulator for medical devices like pacemakers and artificial hips acted ethically in work that overlapped with that of his wife, a … Read More
September 26, 2024
(New York Times) – As more states have legalized the sale of cannabis, a fractured and inconsistent legal framework has emerged across the country that has prioritized sales income and tax revenue over public health, a new report finds. The … Read More
September 26, 2024
(NPR) – States that passed anti-transgender laws aimed at minors saw suicide attempts by transgender and gender nonconforming teenagers increase by as much as 72% in the following years, a new study by The Trevor Project says. The peer-reviewed study, … Read More
