Corporate misbehavior in the health-care sector is widespread: irresponsible opiate marketing, misrepresentation of research data, price gouging, and on and on. Some see it as capitalism run amok. In ...

Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

Decisions in contemporary medicine can be complex and overwhelming. An ethics consultation service helps patients and doctors navigate value-laden conflict and uncertainty and helps determine which ...

She added: “There’s nothing in the regulations that says you can’t have a quota, for example. There’s nothing in the ... These disclosures began a reckoning over the ethics of medical research that ...

The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy’s mission is to conduct innovative multidisciplinary research on ethical issues arising in clinical practice and biomedical research. This research ...

As new abortion bans are enacted around the country, physicians working with pregnant patients are facing potential ethical and legal dilemmas. Even if a law allows for an exception when the life of ...

Madison Patrick is a sociology and public health major and a 2024-25 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Despite the invaluable contribution of medical ...

After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials were landmarks in the development of ...

While most members of Congress wished Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, a speedy recovery from two episodes where he froze while speaking to reporters, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, ...