You can easily find Dr. Jamie Nelson’s decades of work and roughly 150 publications. What’s worth finding in them, and more valuable than the number of ...

You can easily find Dr. Jamie Nelson’s decades of work and roughly 150 publications. What’s worth finding in them, and more valuable than the number of them, is the sense and sensibility with which ...

Imagine using stem cells to create a fragment of a human brain in a petri dish. It has no eyes to see, no mouth to speak, and ...

In 2018, the U.S. federal guidelines were updated to require the reasonable person standard during informed consent in research settings. According to the standard, researchers must disclose to ...

The September 18 th, 2026, announcement from the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW) is one of the most consequential changes to the religion’s medical doctrine in modern times. For decades, ...

Earlier this month at a Hyrox competition in Beijing, China, Australian athlete Joanna Wietrzyk soiled herself … and continued competing. As a result of her decision to not leave the course, her ...

As individuals concerned with ethics in science, medicine, and public health, we wish to express our dismay at the approach taken by Senate leaders to pursue an unwarranted, ill-advised, and frankly ...

This essay is a part of our “In the News…” series, where bioethicists give their take on popular news stories. A gestational surrogate “fleeing” from Alaska to Texas is getting a lot of press. The ...

Epistemic humility is an important virtue for medical practitioners to show within clinical practice. Broadly construed, epistemic humility denotes a disposition to acknowledge the limitations of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are being used to support a range of healthcare activities, offloading tasks that have traditionally been performed by human workers. These tools have a variety of ...

The All of Us research biobank recently announced a massive new data release – making it the largest health database in the world that allows researchers to access both donated genomic information as ...