Historically, the field of bioethics has focused much attention on ethical issues raised by the latest advances in medical science. For example, is it acceptable to use genetic engineering to create ...

Delirium is a common but often undiagnosed condition in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. To improve early detection, a ...

Informed by the Catholic, Jesuit values of Saint Louis University, the Department of Health Care Ethics is committed to interdisciplinary excellence in health care ethics teaching, research and ...

Every year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organizes a Bioethics Symposium to bring together distinguished scholars from diverse backgrounds and explore topics that ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

Lauren Yu ’22 is a double major in biology and public health and is a 2021-22 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and ...

The sweep of Covid-19 across the globe has raised a fundamental question about medical ethics: Do physicians, nurses, EMTs, and other health care workers have moral and legal obligations to risk their ...

Keeping up its tradition of encouraging employees to follow the highest of standards, Midland Health announced on Monday that it will be participating in Corporate Compliance & Ethics Week, organized ...

UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance provider in the US, is currently embroiled in a class-action lawsuit alleging the wrongful denial of extended care claims for elderly patients through ...

DENVER (AP) — Republican Sen. Cory Gardner and his Democratic challenger, former Gov. John Hickenlooper, sparred over ethics, health care and energy during the initial debate in Colorado’s hard-fought ...

How should we define "death"? Who should decide when to withdraw life-sustaining treatment? How should we allocate donated organs? At Saint Louis University’s Department of Health Care Ethics, these ...