STAT Plus: A would-be chain of cancer centers wants to treat patients with Right to Try drugs, raising ethical questions
In an unusual move, a private equity firm is soliciting investors to help create a…
Category: ethics
Opinion: To allocate remdesivir fairly, give it to communities that bear a disproportionate burden of Covid-19
As the federal government haphazardly distributed remdesivir, Gilead Sciences’ repurposed antiviral drug, to some of…
At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The patients of Mayo Clinic, whether they know it or not, have…
STAT Plus: Medical societies have ‘extensive’ financial ties with drug and device makers
Many leaders of influential medical societies have extensive financial relationships with drug and device makers,…
Opinion: When a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available, who should get it first?
The ethical challenges that have arisen so far in the coronavirus pandemic largely boil down…
Opinion: When a Covid-19 vaccine become available, who should get it first?
The ethical challenges that have arisen so far in the coronavirus pandemic largely boil down…
Ethics questions swirl around historic Parkinson’s experiment
A secretive experiment revealed this week, in which neurosurgeons transplanted brain cells into a patient…
Opinion: Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era
“This is my fault. I’m the one who got her sick,” my patient’s son tells…
Opinion: Are infertility treatments ‘essential’? How to ethically determine what kind of care must go on amid Covid-19
As the Covid-19 epidemic began to put an unprecedented strain on the U.S. health care…
Opinion: People with disabilities are at a disadvantage when scarce medical resources are being allocated
I have nightmares, whether I’m asleep or awake, as do many of us as we…
Who gets the last ventilator? Facing the coronavirus, a hospital ponders the unthinkable
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
Opinion: Covid-19 ‘immunity certificates’: practical and ethical conundrums
The media’s understandable focus is now on the number of people hospitalized with and dying…
Opinion: If it comes to rationing, I shouldn’t have to be the one deciding who should live and who should die
Medical school didn’t teach me how to decide which of my patients should live and…
Opinion: Allocate ventilators, other Covid-19 resources based on evidence, not political hunches
The emergence of Covid-19 and its worldwide spread has some of the United States’ top…
Opinion: If Covid-19 gets bad, triage will be needed. Are we ready for that?
The emergence of a new infectious disease that rapidly spreads around the world, like Covid-19,…
Heart Association admits teaming with Bayer on drug-store aspirin displays was a ‘misstep’
The large red-and-white bins at Walmart pharmacies across the country read, in bold all-caps type:…
Opinion: A coronavirus vaccine should be for everyone, not just those who can afford it
As the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads in more than 60 countries, the race to…
STAT Plus: Health care conference about conflicts of interest has a conflict itself, say critics who won’t attend
In an effort to better understand how conflicts of interest may affect health care, the…
Opinion: A strategy for securing religious freedom and tolerance in health care
A new rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services in mid-January, “Ensuring…
A lottery like no other offers up a cutting-edge medicine — with lives on the line
The lottery that began this week was not about money, or about choosing a school,…
Opinion: Cash from cannabis companies creates conflicted researchers
Imagine that scientists charged with doing research on tobacco’s health implications were funded by tobacco…
Opinion: Biotech can — and must — reshape the pricing debate and protect future innovation
The week before the craziness known as J.P. Morgan 2020 began, more than 300 biotech…
‘Traumatic as hell’: Patients describe what it’s like to be restrained in the ER
Sometimes, in especially intense moments in the emergency room, a staffer might have to take…
Opinion: Pain doesn’t stigmatize people. We do that to each other
In 2000, a truck rear-ended my friend Andrea’s car as she stopped at a crosswalk…
Opinion: BMJ should retract flawed research paper on chronic fatigue syndrome
Few journals have been more admirable than The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) and…