More Lenient Guidelines May Inadvertently Lead to a Scarcity of Consented Samples Recently, no area has contributed more and increasingly complex layers to the bioethics debate than research employing ...

The center's clinical ethics personnel engage in scholarship focusing on the practice of clinical ethics consultation as well as on the challenging theoretical questions that arise in the clinical ...

In 1927, the ethicality of eugenics faced a major test in the U.S. Supreme Court. Eugenics won, and Carrie Buck was the victim. The historic Buck v. Bell case legitimized the forced sterilization of ...

As public interest and expanded research in human genome editing grows, many questions remain about ethical, legal and social implications of the technology. People who are seriously ill may ...

Respecting "individual autonomy" through "[f]ree and informed consent" that is given voluntarily by the person who will participate in the research Replacing the term "physicians" with "physicians and ...

Medical distrust is hard to heal. It may linger for generations, being passed down along with china sets and pocket watches. Its presence complicates good medical care since wary patients are less ...

HHS on Monday revised and clarified requirements for informed consent for certain procedures done in the hospital, especially examinations done while the patient is under anesthesia. "It is critically ...