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Medical Ethics
Today, nostalgia is somewhat kitsch. Back then, it was something to be feared.
Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.
The integration of artificial intelligence into public health could have revolutionary implications for the global south—if only it can get online.
Placebo treatments don't always need to be given deceptively to have positive effects.
In hospice care and hospitals, we prioritize those with more life to live over those who are terminally ill. What is that, if not prejudice?
"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.
Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society's overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.
"The only options left were experimental approaches in clinical trials."
From cosmetic procedures to heart operations, the introduction of AI will create an ethical minefield.
From grave robbing to giving your own body to science.
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
The new documentary “Make People Better” leans toward a different narrative about gene-editing than we've heard before.
The placebo effect is real. So are the ethical conundrums posed by those who would exploit the latest research advances for profit.
The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.
"Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks... by up to 200 to 1."
More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.
Science doesn't fit neatly into ideology.
John Templeton Foundation
"I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient."
Human organs don't always show up where doctors expect.
It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.
The model is almost eight hours ahead of a doctor's recognition of a patient's deterioration.
The results of a recent study suggest that some clinicians might be failing to explore other causes when treating gender dysphoria.