medical ethics

The process of IVF necessarily entails creating "excess" embryos – the just “in case” ones used if the first round doesn’

First, SCOTUS found that the trial judge had erred in not instructing the jury that the prosecutor had to show evidence of intent to “knowingly or intentionally” dispense controlled substances. Last bit of law,  

A bit of ethical background As a physician, I try as best I can to follow the four pillars of American medical ethics.

Authors of a newly published piece in The New England Journal of Medicine sought to provide an analysis of who ought to be responsible for obtaining a patient’s consent.

While our culture is preoccupied with violations of consumer data privacy yielding targeted marketing for shoes, travel or food preferences, law and advertising firms are leading a more nefarious erosive charge on patient privacy.

A premature infant is born with a form of severe lung injury that carries a 20% chance of survival. Her physician decides to throw a medical “Hail Mary” and try an untested adult technique to bypass the injured lungs.

Dr. Oz is a fraud who ought to be fired from Columbia University and have his medical license revoked. Instead, he'll be headed to the White House.

Without a doubt, almost all alternative medicine is junk science.

Early on January 27, 2018, The Most Interesting Man in the World passed away at the age of 91.

"Clinical trial" is a nice way of saying "human medical experiment." Experimenting on humans is ethical, so long as the people who volunteer give informed consent and receive a treatment that is thought to be medically beneficial.