March 30, 2023
(Associated Press) – Growing mental health distress in the ranks carries such grave implications that the U.S. chief of naval operations, Adm. Michael Gilday, answered “suicides” when asked earlier this year what in the security environment kept him up at … Read More
March 27, 2023
(Associated Press) – United States Catholic bishops have issued guidelines that seek to stop Catholic hospitals from providing gender transition care, a move LGBTQ advocates say could harm the physical and emotional health of transgender people within the church. The … Read More
March 14, 2023
(The Verge) – Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned. The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team … Read More
March 6, 2023
(BBC) – Judy Heumann, a renowned advocate for the rights of disabled people, has died at the age of 75. Heumann was an internationally recognised leader of the disability rights movement whose activism led to the implementation of major legislation … Read More
February 28, 2023
(Associated Press) – Five years ago, scientist He Jiankui shocked his peers and the world with claims that he created the first genetically edited babies. Now, after serving three years in a Chinese prison for practicing medicine without a license, … Read More
February 21, 2023
(New York Times) – Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died on Wednesday at his home on the Stanford University campus in … Read More
February 16, 2023
(Medical Xpress) – A real-life insect fungus called Cordyceps makes the leap into humans, turning those stricken into violent zombie-like creatures that spread it to others through bites. Society collapses in a matter of days after the fungus emerges. But … Read More
February 9, 2023
Bioethics (vol. 37, no. 1, 2023) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Religious Preferences in Healthcare: A Welfarist Approach” by Roger Crisp “Accommodating Religion and Belief in Healthcare: Political Threats, Agonistic Democracy and established Religion” by Joshua Hordern … Read More
February 3, 2023
(NPR) – Renowned British physician Henry Marsh was one of the first neurosurgeons in England to perform certain brain surgeries using only local anesthesia. For over 30 years, he also made frequent trips to Ukraine, where he performed surgery and … Read More
February 2, 2023
(NPR) – Polls show opinions on abortion, like in other faith groups, are deeply divided. According to a survey conducted last March by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, 56% of Muslim Americans think abortion should actually be legal … Read More
