Doctors should take part in acts of civil disobedience to advocate for patients
Physicians are expected to always act in the best interest of their patients. Increasingly, many doctors find they must speak up and be advocates before…
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What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care
I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught…
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From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Federal datasets began disappearing from public view on Jan. 31, 2025, in response to executive orders from President Donald Trump. Among those were the Centers…
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An artificial heart may save your life. But it can also change you in surprising ways
This week, doctors announced that an Australian man with severe heart failure had left hospital with an artificial heart that had kept him alive until…
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Kylie Minogue IVF: Understanding Her Emotional Battle
For many women and men, fertility is something that feels like it will “always be there” — until life, health, timing or circumstance suddenly changes…
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AI-Enabled Labs, Reproductive Breakthroughs, and the Companies Leading the Way –
More than 45 years after the first IVF birth, we’ve moved from pioneering experiments to a fast-moving era defined by smarter tools, stronger data, and…
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First UK birth after womb transplant is a medical breakthrough – but raises important ethical questions
A baby girl named Amy Isabel has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother who has had a womb…
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Unregulated Sperm Donation: What You Need to Understand
For many people hoping to build a family, sperm donation can offer a path to parenthood. Whether you are a single woman, part of a…
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Is it You or Me? What I Learned About the Real Reason Behind My Multiple Miscarriages –
Before starting my IVF journey, infertility had been one of my biggest fears. I’ve always known I wanted to be a mom and the thought…
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Do people really want to know their risk of getting Alzheimer’s?
A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Among 274 healthy research participants from…
