As David Stern, a 61-year-old Orthodox Jew suffering from a rare neurodegenerative disease, lies conscious and hooked up to a respirator at Providence Tarzana Medical Center, the hospital and lawyers ...

Every year, students entering Harvard medical and dental schools write their own oaths about how they pledge to interact with each other and care for themselves, their patients, and the larger ...

A small white laboratory mouse in the hand of a scientist in a blue rubber glove. Woman puts experiments on a laboratory mouse.© Yanya/Shutterstock.com Every year, millions of animals are used in ...

Shelby Jennett has a neuroscience major and a philosophy minor and she is the 2023-24 Honzel Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. The ...

Medical ethics examines the principles and values guiding professional practice and research in health care. It addresses the moral duties owed to patients, research participants, colleagues and ...

Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

Every year, millions of animals are used in laboratories, and for many people, the image is immediate and uncomfortable: animals in cages, subjected to painful tests for products that may not seem ...