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First Opinion Irene Shapiro

The Morris ALS Principles: A model for empowering all disease communities

First Opinion Barron H. Lerner

Arthur Ashe and AIDS: Did the public have the right to know his diagnosis?

In the Lab Usha Lee McFarling

International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos

First Opinion Aaron Mitchell and Deborah Korenstein

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

Health Megan Thielking

‘Traumatic as hell’: Patients describe what it’s like to be restrained in the ER

First Opinion Sarah C. Hull

Not so conscientious objection: When can doctors refuse to treat?

First Opinion Robert Truog

New guidelines on severe brain injury complicate already difficult decisions

First Opinion I. Glenn Cohen and Alex Pearlman

Creating eggs and sperm from stem cells: the next big thing in assisted reproduction?

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First Opinion Mandeep Dhaliwal

Decriminalizing HIV: Scientifically proven and morally correct

First Opinion Klaudia Jaźwińska

Implant recipients shouldn’t be left in the dark when a device maker cuts off support

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First Opinion Hans Gutbrod

Addressing institutional trauma in health care: the case for a structured ethical framework

Exclusive Megan Molteni

Researchers revive abandoned technique in effort to make artificial human eggs in a test tube

In the Lab Megan Molteni

Buffalo shooting ignites a debate over the role of genetics researchers in white supremacist ideology

First Opinion Anand Kumar

Exploitation in the name of biomedical innovation cannot be tolerated

First Opinion Els Torreele

Global health should not be determined by pharma investors and shareholders

The Pharmalot View Ed Silverman

When should drugmakers go all in and cut off essential medicines to Russia?

Exclusive Megan Molteni

New details emerge about a U.S. scientist’s obscured role in the ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Few public biotech companies disclose environmental, social, and governance steps

First Opinion Lawrence O. Gostin and David Beier

Race alone should not be used to allocate scarce Covid-19 treatments

First Opinion Hedy S. Wald, Herwig Czech and Shmuel P. Reis

Doctors were complicit in Holocaust atrocities. Current and future health care workers need to know that

Health Andrew Joseph

Hospitals are denying transplants for patients who aren’t vaccinated against Covid, with backing from ethicists

Health Megan Molteni

First transplant of a genetically altered pig heart into a person sparks ethics questions

First Opinion David Stein

Health tech needs to rebuild trust in the wake of the Theranos verdict

First Opinion Merith Basey

It’s not the mission of universities to perpetuate inequity. Why do Emory and others do that?

First Opinion Fred D. Ledley

Why the big questions about drug prices are rarely asked: It’s hard to do

In the Lab Megan Molteni

Most advanced lab-grown human embryos prompt a pressing question: Are they getting too real?

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Obesity journal editor’s extensive company ties raise concerns about conflicts of interest in publishing

Health Megan Molteni

Q&A: Bioethicist Leigh Turner on the worrisome boom in unregulated stem cell clinics

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions

First Opinion Joel B. Zivot and Ira Bedzow

What the death rattle and capital punishment have in common

Hospitals Eric Boodman

Philanthropist-funded study at a prestigious hospital raises thorny questions about clinical research

First Opinion Tim Lahey

Feeling guilty about getting a booster shot? Here’s something you can do

First Opinion Carl Elliott

On a day to celebrate the Nobel in medicine, a stain still mars the institute that awards it