ethics

First Opinion Jeffrey S. Flier

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

First Opinion Alan Kadish and John Loike

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

Health Tech Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

STAT+ Conversations: AI’s march into the clinic

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

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

First Opinion 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 Casey Ross

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

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

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

First Opinion Sandeep Jauhar

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

Health Sharon Begley

Ethics questions swirl around historic Parkinson’s experiment

First Opinion Richard E. Leiter

Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era

First Opinion 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 Eva Feder Kittay

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

On the Front Lines Eric Boodman

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

First Opinion Henry T. Greely

Covid-19 ‘immunity certificates’: practical and ethical conundrums

First Opinion Kelly Michelson

If it comes to rationing, I shouldn’t have to be the one deciding who should live and who should die

First Opinion Susie A. Han and Valerie Gutmann Koch

Allocate ventilators, other Covid-19 resources based on evidence, not political hunches

First Opinion Matthew K. Wynia and John L. Hick

If Covid-19 gets bad, triage will be needed. Are we ready for that?

Pharma Phil Galewitz — Kaiser Health News

Heart association admits ‘misstep’ in its drug-store aspirin displays with Bayer

First Opinion Gavin Yamey

A coronavirus vaccine should be for everyone, not just those who can afford it

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Health care conference about conflicts of interest has a conflict itself, say critics who won’t attend

First Opinion Ira Bedzow

A strategy for securing religious freedom and tolerance in health care

Health Andrew Joseph and Ed Silverman

A lottery like no other offers up a cutting-edge medicine — with lives on the line

First Opinion Shaun Khoo

Cash from cannabis companies creates conflicted researchers

First Opinion Craig Martin

Biotech can — and must — reshape the pricing debate and protect future innovation

First Opinion Daniel S. Goldberg

Pain doesn’t stigmatize people. We do that to each other

First Opinion David Tuller

BMJ should retract flawed research paper on chronic fatigue syndrome

First Opinion Jay Baruch

When waiting feels immoral: Fairness in the emergency department calls for empathy from all of us

Politics Rebecca Robbins

Warren and Sanders: More scrutiny needed of commercial boards that decide whether to green-light clinical trials

Health Eric Boodman

In France, it’s illegal for consumers to order a DNA spit kit. Activists are fighting over lifting the ban