The Problem with “Pathological” Gambling
The chips are down. Americans have taken to gambling in a big way...

The Myth of Secular Neutrality: Unbiased Bioethics?
The media spotlight on the Terri Schiavo case brought the world’s attention to important matters such as the use of advance directives and appropriate legal advocacy for the defenseless.

More Aid Required for Chronic Conditions in Low Income Countries
Chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and cancer result in more deaths and account for more years of healthy life lost than most communicable diseases, and yet little international aid is focused on preventing or treating these conditions.

Fewer patients undergoing stroke prevention surgery for wrong reasons
A new study has found a drop in the number of patients undergoing the most commonly used stroke prevention surgery, carotid endarterectomy, for inappropriate reasons.

People with Mental Health Disabilities Fare Worse in Discrimination Lawsuits
People with psychiatric disabilities are faring worse in court cases against employers for discrimination than are people with physical disabilities, researchers have found in a national study

Bias in research on soft drinks -- new treatment for schistosomiasis
New findings highlight bias in research on health benefits of non-alcoholic drinks

Most Fertility Clinic Web Sites Do Not Conform to Ad Guidelines
The majority of fertility clinic Web sites do not adhere to their own association's advertising guidelines

HIV and Prostitution: What’s the Answer?
You may not be reading about it in the news, but there is an ethical and political battle being fought right now over how best to approach the problem of the connection between prostitution and the global spread of HIV/AIDS.

Still in the Image of God? The Ethical Challenge of Brain Damaged Persons
James is a retired English professor who has recently suffered a left hemisphere stroke.

Embryonic, Fetal, and Post-natal Animal-Human Mixtures: An Ethical Discussion
The potential power of embryonic and fetal inter-species mixtures became clear about a decade ago in a series of dramatic experiments in which small sections of brains from developing quails were taken and transplanted into the developing brains of chicke

Bioethics and the Incarnation
During this Christmas season, as believers celebrate the Messiah’s birth, it is worth looking afresh at the problem of bioethics.

The current state of clinical ethics and healthcare ethics committees in Belgium
In this article the authors examine the current situation of ethics committees in Belgium from the perspective of clinical ethics.

Is the body a republic?
This paper articulates the ethical issues involved in organ and tissue retention and use, both in the case in which the deceased’s wishes are known and in the case in which the wishes are not known.

Ethical issues of resuscitation: an American perspective
Challenging issues confront emergency physicians routinely when performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The ethics of policy writing: how should hospitals deal with moral disagreement about controversial medical practices?
Every healthcare organisation (HCO) enacts a multitude of policies, but there has been no discussion as to what procedural and substantive requirements a policy writing process should meet in order to achieve good outcomes and to possess sufficient author

Human Dignity: The Fundamental Concept in Bioethics
In December of 2005, the U.S. President's Council on Bioethics met to discuss the topic, "Human Dignity as a Bioethical Concept."

Bioethics for Believers: The Role of the Church in Matters of Life and Health
During the last quarter of the 20th Century, Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer and pediatric surgeon C. Everett Koop embarked on a project to equip the church on the crucial issue of abortion and warn of the looming threats against human life and dignit

Finding the Human in Christian Bioethics
Is this indeed love, to want to find it outside oneself?

Celling Out: Bioethics and the Culture of Cool
A buddy of mine from college, one of the few with whom I still maintain regular contact, is convinced that I misplaced my brain somewhere over the course of the last eleven years.

Human Dignity: Still Defying Devaluation
Is the concept of “human dignity” of any use in bioethics?