Informed consent on trial

The 'Thou Shalt Nots' Matter

End-of-life plans halve unplanned hospitalisations

Focusing on the fetus changes abortion debate

Sterilization, forced abortion are never the answer, bioethicist says

Canadian doctor’s suggestion to delay revealing baby’s sex ignites controversy over ‘feticide’

In health care, determining what’s unnecessary

Keep sex of fetuses a secret to prevent selective abortion of girls: CMAJ

Moira McQueen: ‘Choice’ as a weapon for aborting babies based on sex

Sex of fetus is a hot-button issue

The ethics of childhood organ transplants: How would you decide who becomes a recipient?

Selective abortions prompt call for ultrasound rules

Beware of Ethics Traps in Social Networking World

U.S. pledges $1.8 million in response to unethical Guatemalan medical studies

Why doctors shouldn't treat family members

Top 10 ethical questions Canadians should answer in 2012

Paying for bone marrow

Doctors Take Fight to Remove Man From Life Support to Supreme Court

Eating Animals

Science, Technology and Values in Undergraduate Education

The Placebo Debate: Is It Unethical to Prescribe Them to Patients?

US Bioethics panel urges system to compensate those hurt in medical experiments

Having to think about the unthinkable

Testing the ethics of genetic testing in sports

Plan B ruling trumps good science with bad policy

Politics Plan B: When Politics Beat Science

Our microbiomes, ourselves

The Catholic church: A house divided?

Critical care: Spending 10 weeks with patients facing death

It's too dangerous to allow others to kill us

Groups frame climate as a moral cause

Officials Wrong to Take 200-Pound Boy From Mom: Bioethicist

Is the Decision to Recommend Reduced Breast Screening Ethical?

NJ Nurses Charge Religious Discrimination Over Hospital Abortion Policy

Op Ed: Facts Should Shape Assisted-Suicide Debate

Ethics of Palliative Sedation Challenged

Expert Panel Calls for Legalization of Assisted Suicide in Canada

In Medicine, Sometimes it’s Better to do Nothing

Is the Charter ‘Applied Ethics’ in Law’s Clothing?

Alternative Medicine Remains an Ethics-Free Zone

Medicare’s No Match for Catastrophic Injury

Dutch Jews and Muslims Fight for Circumcision Right

Mississippi to Vote on 'Personhood' of Fertilized Eggs

Vatican To Host Stem Cell Research Conference

‘Dead-Donor’ Rule Dangerously Misleading, Experts Say

Conjoined Twins: Docs Debate Ethics of Separation Surgery

Is Ethical Human Genetic Enhancement Possible?

Making Laws About Making Babies

Confessions of an Ex-Moralist

Happiness, Philosophy and Science

Lessons From Past Unethical Experiments

I’m Glad I Never Had to Decide Whether My Strange, Lonely Boy Ought to Exist

Whose Profit? Why Bioethics Needs a Global Perspective

Choose Ethics Over Asbestos Exports, MDs Tell Physician-Turned-Tory MP

Drugs Could Cleanse Brain of Bad Memories

Is Gender Selection of a Fetus Ethical?

The Vegetarian Lesson

The Failure of Liberal Bioethics

B.C. Assisted Suicide Challenge Rejected

Boy or Girl? Sex Test Deemed Accurate

Patient Charges Doctors for Making Her Wait

Useless Studies, Real Harm: Carl Elliott

B.C. Right-to-Die Court Battles Continue

Kidney Sale Proposal Sparks Medical Ethics Debate

Who Said Doctors Can't Be Ethical and Successful?

Judge Rejects Lawsuit Against Stem Cell Research in US

At What Price, Immortality?

World’s First MSc in End-of-Life Ethics

Delegates Ask AMA Council How to Just Say No to Patients

Ethics Left Behind as Drug Trials Soar in Developing Countries

Court Decision on One Man’s Fate Renews Debate Over End-of-Life Care

AMA Ethics Proposal Becomes Policy

Heiress's Nurse Inherits $30 Million - But Should She?

Payment as Motivation for Reaching Health Goals Seen as Unfair

Your Body, Your Choice: Fight for Your Somatic Rights

Captain America’s Enlistment and Experimentation: Was It Ethical?

Could Prenatal DNA Testing Open Pandora’s Box?

End-of-Life Care: How You Can Help Stressed Surrogates

Rule Breaker

When Advance Directives Are Not Honored

An Apology's Healing Power

Narrative Medicine: Patient-Centered, Touchy-Feely Health Care

Proposal to Withhold Care from Sick Babies is Unethical, Vatican Adviser Says

Can We Develop and Test Machine Minds and Uploads Ethically?

Korean Bioethics Body Approves First Embryonic Stem Cell Test

Organs From Inmates? That Idea Should be DOA

Patients Are Not Consumers

Ethics, Not Finances, Need to be Remedied

Doctors Choose Riskier Care for Selves

Pre-pregnancy DNA Tests for Genetic Conditions Approved in UK

The Consequences of a Donor Kidney Market

WRHA Reports Make Recommendations About End-of-Life Care

Embryo Ethics: Finding a Home for Canada’s Frozen ‘Orphans’

Ethicists Question Effects of Health-Care Debate

Families Haunted by End-of-Life Decisions

U.S. Bioethics Panel to Review Clinical Trials Around the World

When Optimism Is Unrealistic

N.S. Mother Fights for Comatose Son

Are We More - Or Less - Moral Than We Think?

New Kidney Transplant Policy Would Favor Younger Patients

Physician Vaccination a Top Priority and a Duty

Case Raises Agonizing End-of-Life Questions

Informal May be Best Approach to End-of-Life Conversations

Surrogates' Consent for Feeding Tubes Not Always Realistic

Vatican to Update Bioethics Guide for Catholic Hospitals

Fertility Under Provincial Jurisdiction: Top Court

Doctors and Facebook: Is There a Privacy Risk?

D.N.R. by Another Name

Stunting Disabled Children's Growth is 'Morally Permissible,' Group Says

The Ethical Quandaries of Organ Transplant

Turning Off Heart Devices Near Life's End Stirs Ethical, Legal Debates

U.S. Orders Vast Review of Bioethics

A Robot Exhibits Bedside Manners - And Ethics

Parental Definition to Change in Alberta Family Law

Respecting Muslim Patients’ Needs

DNR Orders Must be Discussed: Doctors

‘Newgenics’ Still Rampant in AB, Conference Told

Beware the Miracle Cure

Ethics of Cosmetic Dentistry: Beneficence, Beauty or "Bucks"?

The Doctor Is In (But Shouldn’t Be)

What About IVF?

New York Asks to Bar Use of Food Stamps to Buy Sodas

The Ethics Of In Vitro Fertilization

Assisted Suicide Ad Banned in Canada

Ethical Dilemmas Nothing New for Critical-Care Nurses

Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End

Atheist Doctors 'More Likely to Hasten Death'

Euthanasia Debate Heats Up in Quebec

Who Should Decide When Care is Futile?

Hundreds of IVF Embryos Donated 'Without Consent'

Many Outraged as Accused Murderer Gets Liver Transplant

What It Takes to Become a Living Donor

What Should Medicine Do When it Can’t Save Your Life?

Some Doctors Join Facebook, Twitter; Others Wary

Province Offers Grant for Living Organ Donors

Bioethicists Examine Ethical Oversight in Quality Initiatives

A Prenatal Treatment Raises Questions of Medical Ethics

Doctors on the cutting edge of reality

Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday

Should People Be Paid to Stay Healthy?

When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects?

Q&A with Amy Gutmann of Presidential Commission for Study of Bioethical Issues

The Doctor's Inbox

What happens when medical, religious ethics clash?

Fertility Treatment Gets More Complicated

Fill End-of-Life Care Gaps: Cancer Group

Informed Consent: Hospitals Explore Personalizing Risks

Nun Excommunicated, Loses Hospital Post Over Decision on Abortion

Should Laws Push for Organ Donation?

The Moral Life of Babies

White House Tackles 'Synthetic Life' Ethics

Blogging the end of a life

End of life: Who should decide to stop treatment?

Health reform a hot topic in bioethics circles

Making your wishes known at the end of life


Maternal health and paternalism

Organ donors could get rewards

Study: People would donate kidneys for payment


TV doctors bring unethical behavior to prime time

US clinic sparks debate with UK human egg raffle


Where’d you go with my DNA?

Medical ethics report retracted due to plagiarism concerns