ethics

Health Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: 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

STAT Plus: 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

First Opinion Haider J. Warraich

Start now to prevent the next Purdue Pharma debacle

Biotech Matthew Herper and Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Return of the mammoth? George Church-backed company launches with $15 million for elephant-sized quest

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Any qualms about an extra Covid vaccine dose? STAT readers respond

Biotech Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: SENS Research Foundation removes Aubrey de Grey over concerns he was interfering in sexual harassment investigation

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Medical journal editorial writers have financial conflicts of interest, too

First Opinion Chris Hemphill

Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias

In the Lab Megan Molteni

By creating mouse eggs entirely from scratch, researchers raise the prospect of a futuristic fertility treatment

First Opinion Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Matthew Guido and Patricia Hong

Vaxxed or axed: To protect patients, every health care worker must be vaccinated

Health Claudia López Lloreda

Researchers raise concerns about using genetic risk scores to pick ‘healthier’ embryos

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

Scientific panel loosens ’14-day rule’ limiting how long human embryos can be grown in the lab

Health Nicholas St. Fleur

A doctor trained nurse practitioners to do colonoscopies. Critics say his research exploited Black patients

Exclusive Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Six patients with dementia went to Mexico for an unproven gene therapy, a biotech CEO claims

First Opinion Anna Wexler

STAT Plus: A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech

Hospitals Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault, and Patricia Wen — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level

Health Rebecca Sohn

Nazi anatomical drawings are donated in effort to address ethical quandary — and spotlight a dark history

Health Kate Sheridan

At least 4 founders of Time’s Up Healthcare resign as organization mum on sexual harassment suit

First Opinion Ruth R. Faden and Ruth A. Karron

Using the new Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to create equity and trust