ethics

First Opinion By Peter Kaplan

Talent, culture, and ethics are all necessary ingredients in the biotech recipe for success

Health By Nicholas St. Fleur

The polio vaccine had Elvis. Can celebrities similarly spur acceptance of the Covid-19 vaccine?

First Opinion By Carleigh Krubiner, Ruth R. Faden, and Ruth A. Karron

FDA: Leave the door open to Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant and lactating health workers

First Opinion By Aaron Mitchell and Deborah Korenstein

Drug companies’ payments and gifts affect physicians’ prescribing. It’s time to turn off the spigot

First Opinion By Mark Dornauer

Frameworks for medical rationing must be created of, for, and with the people

First Opinion By Karen Tibbals

Moral foundations theory can help rehabilitate pharma’s image

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Doctors are accepting as much money from industry as they were when OpenPayments launched

First Opinion By Sam Beyda and Abigail Marsh

If donating a kidney to a stranger is ethical and allowable, taking part in a Covid-19 challenge trial should be, too

First Opinion By Charles E. Binkley

Give teachers high priority access to Covid-19 treatments and vaccines

First Opinion By Patrick Skerrett

The ethics of pausing a vaccine trial in the midst of a pandemic: a conversation with Ruth Faden

First Opinion By Josephine Johnston

The U.S. must do some heavy lifting to prepare for heritable genome editing

Health By Andrew Joseph

Expert panel lays out guidelines for germline editing, while warning against pursuit of ‘CRISPR babies’

First Opinion By Jeffrey S. Flier

Hospital CEOs, med school leaders shouldn’t sit on for-profit health care company boards

First Opinion By Alan Kadish and John Loike

A pandemic ethical conundrum: Must health care workers risk their lives to treat Covid-19 patients?

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

STAT+ Conversations: AI’s march into the clinic

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

A would-be chain of cancer centers wants to treat patients with Right to Try drugs, raising ethical questions

First Opinion By Parker Crutchfield, Tyler S. Gibb, and Michael Redinger

To allocate remdesivir fairly, give it to communities that bear a disproportionate burden of Covid-19

Health Tech By Casey Ross

At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

Medical societies have ‘extensive’ financial ties with drug and device makers

First Opinion By Sandeep Jauhar

When a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available, who should get it first?

Health By Sharon Begley

Ethics questions swirl around historic Parkinson’s experiment

First Opinion By Richard E. Leiter

Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era

First Opinion By Shailin A. Thomas and Arthur L. Caplan

Are infertility treatments ‘essential’? How to ethically determine what kind of care must go on amid Covid-19

First Opinion By Eva Feder Kittay

People with disabilities are at a disadvantage when scarce medical resources are being allocated

On the Front Lines By Eric Boodman

Who gets the last ventilator? Facing the coronavirus, a hospital ponders the unthinkable