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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.
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Research ethics is seen as a nuisance at best, an impediment to progress at worst, says a Cornell University medical ethicist, who adds that a closer collaboration between researchers and ethicists might lead to a change in that perception.
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Before an ethics committee takes the time and effort to evaluate its performance, the members might want to step back and examine its standing within the institution.
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The outlook for patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) may have new potential, according to a team of physicians, scientists, and ethicists who used deep brain stimulation (DBS) to improve function in a man's still-responsive brain networks.
