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Top 23 Bioethical Issues In Biological Advancements
Bioethical Issues: Bioethics refers to the study and evaluation of the decisions done in scientific research and medicine to touch upon the health and lives of people, as well as the society and environment. Bioethics is a [...]
Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans
Dr Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the avian influenza virus - which is also known as H5N1 - has had an “extremely high” mortality rate among the several [...]
World IVF market is already US$25 billion
According to Vision Research Reports, the size of the global IVF market was estimated at US$25.3 billion in 2023. By 2023 it will be US$43.6 billion. The market research group believes that growth is being driven by increasing infertility [...]
AI Ethics: Why it matters! by Adarsh Srivastava, PGDISAD, Head of Data & Analytics Quality Assurance at Roche Diagnostics
I recently had the privilege to give a session in Bioethics Spring School on the crucial intersection of AI Ethics during spring school on "Wars, diseases and bioethics" Exploring the nexus of war, diseases, and [...]
Keynote speaker: Frederick Licciardi, MD, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Did you know that one of our keynote speakers, fertility specialist Dr. Frederick Licciardi, is also an incredible singer and songwriter!! Read more here!
Dr. Frederick Licciardi lectured at “Wars, Diseases, and Bioethics” Spring School Online, Review by Dr. Chiedozie Ike
Science and the arts have always shared a strong bond. Many of the world's scientists (and bioethicists) have been storytellers, poets, film actors, or singers. I have been curious about this connection since I [...]
A Unique, Eye-opening experience: A physician’s perspective by Rola Itani, MD
Being granted a scholarship to participate in the Bioethics Education International Spring School 2024 was not just a unique and invaluable opportunity, but a testament to the belief and support of the scholarship committee. As [...]
Current and Future Lessons from the COVID Pandemic
The current COVID pandemic appears to be under control, Yet, these past three years have been both challenging and exciting. The rapid development of effective mRNA COVID vaccines is a major scientific breakthrough that will [...]
Scientific Foundation for the Ethical Discussion of Fertility Treatments
The term “Reproductive Technologies” encompasses a wide range of therapies used to help those women and couples who cannot conceive a child. Since it’s inception, the field has been an epicenter of ethical controversy. Read [...]
Bioethics in the Public Space: Lessons from the Covid Years
The Covid-19 pandemic created an exceptional public health situation in which health professionals, governments and the general public were faced with significant uncertainty regarding how best to proceed, and Read more here!
Holding On to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots
Socially interactive robots are becoming increasingly AI-enabled and equipped to serve as our friends, companions, therapists, caregivers, teachers and even lovers. This development has profound personal, social, cultural and ethical ramifications as both a welcome [...]
Preserving Integrity in Science
Being a professional scientific researcher is much like being a professional musician, artist, or journalist. It is possible to make money doing it, but it isn’t a profession that people join to get rich. Read [...]
When We Cannot Cure: Thoughts on the Ultimate Challenge to the Bond of Patient and Doctor
The physicians of the Hippocratic era called medicine “The Art.” They knew that the care of their fellows was an act of creativity. They also recognized that each patient and his or her physician form [...]
“Absolutely Essential”: Bioethics and the Rules-Based International Order
The field that came to be known as bioethics in the late 1960s is an integral part of the liberal international order intentionally developed in the aftermath of the catastrophe of World War II. Following [...]
Is Universal Health Coverage an Answer to the Health Injustices in Africa?
More than a decade ago, South Africa planned to introduce a universal health coverage (UHC) through a national health insurance (NHI). The purpose of introducing UHC was to address healthcare injustices and improve the health [...]
Reflections on Generative AI, Bioethics and Health? Threats, Risks and Opportunities for Humanity
The rapid advancements in generative artificial intelligence (gAI) have rekindled discussions on the intricate relationship between technology and humanity. Current technology ethics have Read more here!
Frontlines Bioethics: War, Disease, Politics and the Impact on Humanity
This presentation examines the role of bioethics in the face of the harrowing realities of war and the prevalence of diseases that often accompany it. Read more here!
Gaza and the End of the Rules-Based Order
After more than four months of conflict, Israel’s campaign of retaliation against Hamas has been characterized by a pattern of war crimes and violations of international law. Israel’s stated justification for its war in Gaza [...]
Bioethics in the Second Cold War
The field that came to be known as bioethics in the late 1960’s is an integral part of the liberal international order intentionally developed in the aftermath of the catastrophe of World War II. Following [...]
A Timely Review of Ethical Medical Practice in Israel
War tests the fundamental ethical obligations of medical practice. In the middle of conflicts, it can be difficult for physicians to be fair and equitable while providing treatment that offers benefits, avoids harm, and respects [...]
Bodily autonomy, as my grandmother’s struggle showed me, is indeed a universal human right
We can protect that by supporting the End-of-Life Options Act in the Minnesota Legislature. Read more here!
Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a living patient for the first time
In a new test of xenotransplantation, a medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Thursday that, for the first time, it had transplanted a kidney from a CRISPR gene-edited pig into a living patient. Surgeons [...]
I interviewed Chat GPT on AI, ethics, and morality.
This article is the first in a series on Artificial Intelligence and the ethics of AL. I started with this interview of Chat GPT to ask hard questions on morality and ethics. For years, I’ve [...]
Conflicts in Gaza and around the world create a perfect storm for infectious disease outbreaks
The global history of conflicts has revealed that infectious diseases resulting from displacement, overcrowding, healthcare collapse, destruction of critical water and sanitation infrastructure, and malnutrition can cause death rates equal or beyond those Read more [...]
‘It’s a bit chaotic’: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries
Rob Bart remembers what it felt like, the moment of discovery. As an intern at Duke University Medical Center in the ’90s, he’d sometimes be tasked with poring through a patient’s medical history to uncover [...]