Controversies in medical ethics and health policy may not be something the average Houstonian considers every day, but they raise issues that will impact all of us at some point in our lives. To help ...

The Health Policy Pathway teaches students in an immersive, experiential way how to apply policy concepts to current problems and questions in their healthcare environment. The Ethics Thread (ET) is ...

Syracuse University and LeMoyne College parnter for the "Intelligent Conversation Series," which has a medical theme this month. "Medical Ethics - The Complexities of Modern Medicine" takes place at 7 ...

The field of medical ethics encompasses the principles and values that govern clinical practice, research, and public health policy. It seeks to balance the physician’s duty to care and ‘do no harm’ ...

Now, most American physicians don’t own their own practices; they work for institutions—investor-owned, non-profit, or public—as employees or contractors. Discussions of ethics in health care must ...

Duty to Respond to In-Flight Medical Emergencies? Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the moral and legal considerations for physicians and nurses to respond to medical emergencies on an airplane. Medscape ...

The mutation that causes Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) can be detected in a prenatal screen. But a parent's decision to test for this terrible disease is not as easy as you would think. Families that ...

In an article she wrote this past spring for the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, bioethicist Laurie Zoloth approached from a Jewish perspective the moral choices posed by advances in genetic and ...

Accepting Obesity Shouldn't Stop Us From Warning of Its Dangers A bioethicist says overweight people need emotional support and acceptance, but clinicians should not stop conveying that obesity is a ...

Medical ethics is a pivotal field that provides guidance for the conduct of medical professionals and ensures the integrity of medical practice, protecting the interests of all patients. Misconduct ...