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A survey of 5,000 U.S. medical students reveals that just over one-third understand the Geneva Conventions as they apply to military medical ethics; underlying that finding is the additional revelation that very few receive any medical school instruction in military medical ethics.
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Two foundations that seek to establish a constitutional right to experimental therapy for the seriously ill will challenge a recent decision in a federal appeals court that favors the FDA's more cautious approach to access to experimental drugs.
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The Seattle pediatric endocrinologist who spearheaded the growth attenuation treatment on a disabled 9-year-old girl known as "Ashley" died in an apparent suicide in late September.
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HIV vaccine trials likely will continue for a decade or longer, raising questions about ethical considerations of enrolling participants across the globe.
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Call it health care travel or medical tourism, international travel by people seeking medical procedures and therapies is big business, with estimates commonly in the neighborhood of $20 billion per year.
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In recent months, 16 of the 38 states that have the death penalty have put executions on hold, primarily over objections raised regarding the lethal injection method.
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A patient on a transplant waiting list learns she can quickly and less expensively obtain the organ she needs in Thailand.
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Health care providers are among groups ethically and legally obligated to report suspected child abuse.
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It's a slippery slope say those who oppose legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS): Legalizing PAS will create disproportionate death rates among groups such as the elderly, uninsured, mentally ill, and poor. But a team of international ethicists say data don't support that concern.
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A chaplain who recently resigned from her post at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD, said her resignation was requested by the hospital after she tried to end a policy permitting The Gideons missionary organization to deliver Bibles to all hospital patients.
