June 10, 2025
(NBC News) – Leaders of an aid organization that has sent more than 100 Haitian children with serious cardiac conditions to the U.S. for heart surgery said President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from 19 countries will stall or cancel … Read More
June 10, 2025
(New York Times) – A nurse practitioner spoke on the phone with patients in states with abortion bans, assessed their medical eligibility and sent pills. She took some unconventional steps to protect their privacy. Ms. Lynch is one of about … Read More
June 6, 2025
(The Conversation) – People often hear that health care in America is dysfunctional – too expensive, too complex and too inequitable. But dysfunction implies failure. What if the real problem is that the system is functioning exactly as it was … Read More
June 6, 2025
(The Spectator) – The hospice movement is one of the great achievements of post-war Britain. Inspired by the doctor Cicely Saunders, who in effect founded the field of palliative care, it has united cutting-edge research with a profound understanding of … Read More
June 5, 2025
(Ms.) – In 28 states, if you’re pregnant, the government can ignore your end-of-life wishes—no matter what you’ve written. Reproductive freedom advocates filed a lawsuit, Vernon v. Kobach, on May 29 challenging the constitutionality of a Kansas law that automatically invalidates a person’s end-of-life treatment … Read More
June 4, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
June 3, 2025
(Daily Mail) – Sir Tony Blair has urged Britain to embrace AI doctors and nurses as he said the world was ‘in the foothills’ of the biggest tranformation since the Industrial Revolution. The former prime minister claimed AI could have … Read More
June 3, 2025
(NBC News) – Some of the most powerful artificial intelligence models today have exhibited behaviors that mimic a will to survive. Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have shown that several advanced AI models … Read More
June 2, 2025
(New York Times) — When Canada’s first MAID law, Bill C-14, passed in 2016, it was reserved for those who were over 18, eligible for health care and mentally competent to consent to death. They needed to have a “serious … Read More
June 2, 2025
(Daily Mail) — A controversial amendment allowing assisted suicide is making its way through the Illinois state legislature as representatives snuck the measure into a bill on sanitary food preparation. Illinois House Majority Leader Robyn Gabel, a Democrat representing Evanston, … Read More
May 29, 2025
(Wired) – Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future. THE UNITED STATES … Read More
May 28, 2025
(UPI) – France’s National Assembly approved a measure that would legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia if signed into law. The French lawmakers passed the measure, dubbed the “right to die” law, on a 305-199 vote during the measure’s first reading … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Axios) – President Trump’s imminent plans to issue a White House report promoting in vitro fertilization has spurred anti-abortion conservatives to call for new guardrails that could greatly limit the use of the treatment. Why it matters: Medical groups and … Read More
May 26, 2025
(UPI) – All non-medical products containing THC in any form soon could be outlawed in Texas after state lawmakers approved a full ban on Wednesday. The Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday night voted 95-44 to approve Senate Bill 3, … Read More
May 26, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 23, 2025
(New York Times) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his … Read More
May 23, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 17, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 22, 2025
(The Critic) – The potential for inhuman cruelty that it contains is vast The supporters of the assisted dying bill did not merely dismiss or ignore the incredibly cogent and powerful arguments made by its critics, they seemed not even … Read More
May 19, 2025
(New York Times) – Trump aides have discussed requiring insurers to cover the procedure, though one leading medical group says it has been shut out of the process. Infertility doctors and other leaders in the industry, along with representatives of … Read More
May 19, 2025
(Center for Humane Technology) – Right now, Congress is trying to stop state-level AI laws in the United States – for the next 10 years. The House Energy and Commerce committee passed a provision this week that proposes a sweeping … Read More
May 16, 2025
(NPR) – At least 17 clinics closed last year in states where abortion remains legal, and another 17 have closed in just the first five months of this year, according to data gathered by ineedana[dot]com. That includes states that have … Read More
May 16, 2025
(NPR) – A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital … Read More
May 15, 2025
(NPR) – Since abortion became nearly entirely illegal in Texas in 2021, the state has seen a significant rise in the number of women who die in pregnancy or after giving birth. A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the state … Read More
May 14, 2025
(Unherd) – Last September, I found myself — confused, groggy, and irritable — staring into the surgical dome light of my local hospital’s emergency room. The doctor and my parents at my bedside informed me that I had been found … Read More
May 13, 2025
(NPR) – Squeezed by insurers and middlemen, independent pharmacists such as Jolley find themselves on the front lines of a tariff storm. Nearly everyone down the line — drugmakers, pharmacies, wholesalers and middlemen — opposes most tariffs. Slashing drug imports … Read More
