A new low opens the door for two-tier that would destroy medicare.

Hundreds of federally funded clinical trials, enrolling more than 74,000 patients, were disrupted this year after the National Institutes of Health abruptly terminated billions of dollars in research ...

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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7 pediatric bioethicists on what’s wrong with the proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors.

Powerful insight from Dr. Tunde Ogunbosi about working as a doctor in conflict areas of Northern Nigeria.

Sharaa has successfully isolated Syria’s Kurds, who are now set to lose their autonomy and much of their ability to defend themselves.

In this post, Louis Larue (Aalborg University, Denmark) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the appropriateness of selecting research applications rando…

In a surprise move, Florida officials have proposed drastically reducing eligibility for the state AIDS drug assistance program.

Wayne Sumner offers a devastating response to MAID critics in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.  He distinguishes between two different kinds of objection to MAID: principled v pragmatic. Principled objections usually take the form of contending that MAID is just inherently wrong, or at least ethically problematic, by virtue of intentionally causing death or violating the sanctity of life. Pragmatic objections, on the other hand, raise no ethical issue with MAID itself, but are critical of the legal regime established to administer it: its eligibility criteria are too broadly drawn, or its procedures are too lax, or its safeguards are insufficiently stringent.  Sumner then shows that MAID is not as special as it is commonly made out to be. By situating MAID within the broader context of end-of-life care, it becomes clear that every alleged concern about MAID applies equally to WLST, VSED, or any other option.  So, until a better explanation of what the critics find to be so special about MAID, Sumner contends that their objection to it is, at bottom, principled rather than pragmatic. Consequently, the ultimate issue for them is not patient safety or other pragmatic concerns but the ethical status of MAID itself.

Multiple sources have told BBC Persian that security forces will not release bodies unless relatives hand over money.

U.S. patients with dementia regularly obtain MAID to avoid living into late-stage dementia. First, some travel to one of five Swiss centers (and sometimes to a Belgian one). Second, some VSED to make themselves eligible for U.S. MAID. Third, some are already eligible because of another illness.    But patients with dementia as their sole underlying medical condition cannot directly qualify for MAID in any of the 14 U.S. jurisdictions where it is authorized. In a recent Medscape perspective, Art Caplan argues that these and other states should avoid broadening amendments because patients with dementia SUMC should not qualify for MAID.  I disagree. Not only should patients with dementia SUMC qualify for MAID, as California considered in 2024, but also they should be able to complete advance requests for MAID, so that they can avoid having to hasten their death prematurely when they still have capacity.  In this upcoming presentation I will expand my argument from this Harvard University presentation (June 2025) and this book chapter. 

In ethical debates on assisted dying, the principle of respect for autonomy is usually invoked to justify respecting requests for assisted dying. However, there are not only autonomy-based obligation...

In a way, claims made by food companies about ultraprocessed products are fundamentally a form of economic disinformation