RFK Jr’s speech to the Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group that he founded, was a tour de force but of the wrong kind.

Twenty years ago, I wrote the first essay published in Hastings Bioethics Forum. At that time, online publications were new and many people were suspicious of them. Recently, I reflected on my reflect...

Bioethicists and others should submit comments on the Office of Management and Budget proposal to revise its rules on how the government awards and manages federal grants.

The facts are not enough. In addition to using evidence, people who support the legal right to abortion must make the moral case for it.

Hard cases make bad law. Does a flesh-eating worm really help us think about how to use genome editing in the wild?

Karen Ann Quinlan’s surrogate decision-makers – her parents – won the right to turn off the ventilator that had been keeping their comatose daughter alive.

Across the country, families plead with medical professionals and courts for intervention when loved ones with serious mental illness refuse psychiatric treatment.

In a recent episode of The Pitt, two ICE agents bring a patient into the ER who was apprehended in a raid. While the episode gets a lot right, it has some shortcomings. And those shortcomings largely ...

Can a species be so terrible…we need to wipe it out?

The death of Alex Pretti has shaken the nursing profession to the core.

Would it ever be acceptable to agree not to withhold CPR, yet when the moment comes, either forgo it altogether or perform it less vigorously than usual?

The question, Do we still need bioethics? sounds almost absurd in Ukraine. I insist: Not only do we need bioethics; it is vital.

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement known as

Their decisions underscore a growing divide between federal health authorities and major medical groups.

Whatever disagreements neuroethicists have, they all presuppose the annoying multiplicity of brains that somehow generate minds. Not so in Vince

At this unprecedented time for medical research, there is an urgent need for protocols to prepare for and communicate the termination of a study to all research stakeholders.

It is striking how many notorious cases of abuses of human research subjects go almost entirely unmentioned in the bioethics literature.

One of the Trump administration's latest targets is children's mental health services. Recently, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Health and Human

The cost of health insurance is rising faster than the price of eggs or gasoline.

Clinicians acknowledge significant barriers to conducting DEI-related medical research, but they also provide a glimmer of hope, suggesting how to find funding in these uncertain times.

The first clinical trial transplanting gene-edited pig kidneys into humans could start this year. They raise important ethical issues.

As people turn to AI for therapy and companionship, some say the models still need to learn the nuances of human humor.

Recent reports reveal that the U.S. government is systematically collecting DNA from migrant children, some as young as 4 years old, and storing it

A small group of people with a severe form of type 1 diabetes have been successfully treated with pancreatic cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. This moment should not pass without recognit...

In my role as a clinical ethicist, I regularly explore the risks and benefits of proposed treatments, especially for terminal diseases. But for Sheba this moral question felt unique.

The rhyme of history is disturbing, especially when played out by the professionals whom we rely on for ethical leadership, not for unethical manipulation of the law.

Proposed cuts to federal research funding and attacks on universities imperil the longstanding global leadership of the United States in scientific and medical discoveries and raise profound bioethica...

Will bioethics continue to exist and in what form? In the United States, where the discipline is most developed and institutionalized, it is under pressure.

Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company, announced that it has achieved a scientific first -- bringing back an extinct animal: the dire wolf. Crucial questions emerge about scientific hubris, pl...

With concern about its stability, 23andMe should consider what information and protection it owes its users. So should other DTC genetic testing companies.

I had never thought much about Alzheimer’s disease, other than to hope that I never suffer from it. But after attending a heavy metal concert, that condition began to weigh on my heart and mind. The s...

Many think that the decision 20 years ago to permit Terri Schiavo to die was a victory for medical choice. On the contrary, her death triggered a series of events that have corroded individual control...

Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.

“It’s not an understatement to say prisoner CNAs are the backbone of the prison medical system. For this work, we earned $1.75 a day,” writes Abraham Santiago.

An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.

From Acadia in Maine to Joshua Tree in Southern California, protesters turned out to stand up against what they see as threats to public lands.

The CDC was ordered to shelve promotions it developed for a variety of vaccines after Health Secretary RFK Jr. said he wants message focused on "informed consent."

In response to Trump science policies, universities are accepting fewer graduate students than normal and freezing positions, STAT has learned.

We have well-developed playbooks on what health care providers and institutions should do immediately to welcome immigrant patients and make their facilities as safe as possible for them.

Following a Jan. 29 memo, staff at the CDC are removing any content related to “gender ideology,” with a deadline of Friday afternoon.