#Medical Ethics

Articles (22)

• 🇺🇸 Israel Agrees to Hold Talks With Lebanon — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Also, vegetative patients may be more aware than we thought. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

  Related: #Diplomacy, #Neuroscience
• 🇺🇸 Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

  Related: #Neuroscience, #Healthcare
• 🇺🇸 As parents clamor for a treatment touted for autism, doctors hesitate to prescribe it — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  After the leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don't want to lose patients&apos...

  Related: #Autism Treatment
• 🇬🇧 The Guardian view on weight-loss jabs and addiction: there is too much moralising about these remarkable medicines | Editorial — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Evidence is piling up that GLP-1 drugs can treat addiction. We must learn from the way that obesity has been stigmatised</p><p>In the years since so-called weight-loss jabs entered widespread use, ...

  Related: #Public Health
• 🇺🇸 ‘Manhood’ Review: Documentary Takes a Graphic, Compassionate Look at the Wild World of Penile Enhancement — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Daniel Lombroso's SXSW-premiering doc examines penile enhancement and how it relates to toxic masculinity and male fragility.

  Related: #Body Image
• 🇬🇧 Experts fear ‘unethical’ vaccine trial in Africa is ‘prototype’ for US studies under RFK Jr — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy</p><p>New details are leading experts to fear that an “unethical” vaccine trial...

  Related: #Vaccine Research
• 🇬🇧 My ‘difficult’ patient made my heart sink. But what happens when doctors are part of the problem? | Ranjana Srivastava — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>One in six patients is deemed to be dissatisfied and demanding. But to prevent difficult medical problems from being redefined as difficult patients, doctors need help</p><p>I once cared for a pati...

  Related: #Patient-Doctor Relationships
• 🇺🇸 The Woman Who Died Twice — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  A woman's body is found in a swamp, murdered. Impossible, say friends, who learned she'd died in a hospital five months earlier. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

  Related: #Legal Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Human rights court orders reparations for forced sterilisation case in Peru — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Inter-American Court of Human Rights says Peru must pay family of woman who died as a result of forced sterilisation.

  Related: #Human Rights, #Reparations
• 🇺🇸 Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’ — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  A small stable of doctors gave V.I.P. medical services to the sex offender and the women around him. Some doctors bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession.

  Related: #Wealth and Privilege, #Legal Compliance
• 🇺🇸 Echoing RFK, Dr. Casey Means softens her social media persona in surgeon general bid — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer who rose to prominence by lambasting traditional medicine and accusing pharmaceutical companies of corruption, bore little resemblance to her online persona Wedn...

  Related: #Political Nomination, #Health Policy, #Public Perception
• 🇬🇧 Henrietta Lacks: Family of woman whose cells were 'stolen' settles second lawsuit — 28/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Novartis is the second drug company to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman whose cells have enabled huge advances in science.

  Related: #Racial Justice, #Informed Consent, #Scientific Advancement
• 🇺🇸 Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.

  Related: #Patient Rights, #Bioethics
• 🇬🇧 Assisted dying on Welsh NHS a step closer as Senedd votes in favour — 24/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  In major vote Senedd backs legislation which could allow for terminally ill people to end their lives.

  Related: #Legislative Process, #Patient Rights
• 🇬🇧 Trial into puberty blockers for children paused over 'wellbeing concerns' — 21/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A clinical trial into puberty blockers has been paused after the medicines regulator raised "new concerns directly related to the wellbeing of children", the government said.

  Related: #Gender Identity, #Child Healthcare, #Research Regulation
• 🇺🇸 Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory environment” in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors.

  Related: #Healthcare Policy, #Transgender Rights
• 🇺🇸 Peter Attia’s Ties to Epstein Spark a Backlash From Doctors — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  What started as a rebuke of Dr. Attia has become a discussion about his credentials, longevity medicine and whom patients should trust.

  Related: #Accountability, #Longevity Medicine
• 🇺🇸 Lindsey Vonn's choice to race Olympic downhill on injured knee questioned after crash — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  Lindsey Vonn's crash in the Olympic downhill has sparked debate over whether she should have raced with a severely injured knee

  Related: #Sports Safety, #Olympic Games
• 🇺🇸 AI chatbots versus human healthcare professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis of empathy in patient care — 07/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.05628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Empathy is widely recognized for improving patient outcomes, including reduced pain and anxiety and improved satisfaction, and its absenc...

  Related: #Healthcare Technology, #Artificial Intelligence
• 🇺🇸 Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  One panelist accused the F.D.A. of withholding data on potential harms. The advisers also are reviewing research on vaccines given to pregnant women.

  Related: #Public Health, #Government Oversight
• 🇺🇸 Renowned surgeon allegedly faked records to block patients' liver transplants — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  A Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of falsifying medical records for five patients, making them ineligible to receive a liver transplant, federal prosecutors say.

  Related: #Healthcare Fraud, #Patient Rights, #Transplant System Integrity
• 🇺🇸 The Depraved Heart Murder — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  A surgeon is accused of drugging his girlfriend in order to control her. "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.

  Related: #Domestic Abuse, #Criminal Justice