The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates the dangerous temptation to remove control over policy from democratic deliberation in ...

Tennessee six-month-old August Stoll finally has been approved for a much-needed heart transplant after the child had to endure a bumpy road early in his young life. Vanderbilt University Hospital ...

"Why is it that we think we can just take everything, everything, and modify it for ourselves?" asks Françoise Baylis, a world leader in the field of bioethics. "We're modifying mosquitoes so that ...

"In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids," by Travis Rieder. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) After a motorcycle accident that almost took off his foot, Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Travis ...

WASHINGTON — As workplaces have begun to require COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, some Catholic institutions insist that conscience exemptions are necessary. In addition, priests should be allowed ...

Some people see clinical trials as a chance for a miracle cure. In reality, these experimental drug tests and medical interventions often fail. With researchers in the United States now testing the ...

A new genetic modification therapy designed for treating pediatric leukemia is a promising development, said a Catholic bioethicist. Gene therapies have garnered public attention for their potential ...

On May 23, 2015, Travis Rieder jumped on his new motorcycle for a leisurely morning ride on the beautiful, winding roads of the Shenandoah Valley. Earlier that day, he had spent some quality time with ...

What Comes Next in Venezuela? Those Allegedly Untrustworthy American Reporters Addressing Root Causes of the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis Audio By Carbonatix The American Journal of Bioethics is a ...

Photo: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune DePaul University’s Craig Klugman has spent a career pondering the moral quandaries of health and medicine — he’s a bioethicist who’s worked with the city and state ...