High schoolers under the supervision of Dr. Beverly Torok-Storb in the Hutchinson Center training lab are learning and talking about the real life behind tissue samples used in research. Working in ...

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 ...

Fully informed consent is not ethically required for some types of health research, leading bioethics experts contend in an article published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine ...

Imagine a village ravaged by pneumonia and far from the nearest clinic. A couple in the village has lost one child to the disease when they are approached by a pharmaceutical company representative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Informed consent is a process that’s required for most medical procedures. However, there’s often confusion about what informed consent is, what it means, and when it’s needed. In a healthcare setting ...

When you see a heavily police-patrolled area, what’s your immediate thought? Though the police may be there as a proactive step to reassure residents of a safe neighborhood, you’d probably think that ...