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End-of-life plans halve unplanned hospitalisations
Focusing on the fetus changes abortion debate
Sterilization, forced abortion are never the answer, bioethicist says
Canadian doctor’s suggestion to delay revealing baby’s sex ignites controversy over ‘feticide’
In health care, determining what’s unnecessary
Keep sex of fetuses a secret to prevent selective abortion of girls: CMAJ
Moira McQueen: ‘Choice’ as a weapon for aborting babies based on sex
Sex of fetus is a hot-button issue
The ethics of childhood organ transplants: How would you decide who becomes a recipient?
Selective abortions prompt call for ultrasound rules
Beware of Ethics Traps in Social Networking World
U.S. pledges $1.8 million in response to unethical Guatemalan medical studies
Why doctors shouldn't treat family members
Top 10 ethical questions Canadians should answer in 2012
Paying for bone marrow
Doctors Take Fight to Remove Man From Life Support to Supreme Court
Eating Animals
Science, Technology and Values in Undergraduate Education
The Placebo Debate: Is It Unethical to Prescribe Them to Patients?
US Bioethics panel urges system to compensate those hurt in medical experiments
Having to think about the unthinkable
Testing the ethics of genetic testing in sports
Plan B ruling trumps good science with bad policy
Politics Plan B: When Politics Beat Science
Our microbiomes, ourselves
The Catholic church: A house divided?
Critical care: Spending 10 weeks with patients facing death
It's too dangerous to allow others to kill us
Groups frame climate as a moral cause
Officials Wrong to Take 200-Pound Boy From Mom: Bioethicist
Is the Decision to Recommend Reduced Breast Screening Ethical?
NJ Nurses Charge Religious Discrimination Over Hospital Abortion Policy
Op Ed: Facts Should Shape Assisted-Suicide Debate
Ethics of Palliative Sedation Challenged
Expert Panel Calls for Legalization of Assisted Suicide in Canada
In Medicine, Sometimes it’s Better to do Nothing
Is the Charter ‘Applied Ethics’ in Law’s Clothing?
Alternative Medicine Remains an Ethics-Free Zone
Medicare’s No Match for Catastrophic Injury
Dutch Jews and Muslims Fight for Circumcision Right
Mississippi to Vote on 'Personhood' of Fertilized Eggs
Vatican To Host Stem Cell Research Conference
‘Dead-Donor’ Rule Dangerously Misleading, Experts Say
Conjoined Twins: Docs Debate Ethics of Separation Surgery
Is Ethical Human Genetic Enhancement Possible?
Making Laws About Making Babies
Confessions of an Ex-Moralist
Happiness, Philosophy and Science
Lessons From Past Unethical Experiments
I’m Glad I Never Had to Decide Whether My Strange, Lonely Boy Ought to Exist
Whose Profit? Why Bioethics Needs a Global Perspective
Choose Ethics Over Asbestos Exports, MDs Tell Physician-Turned-Tory MP
Drugs Could Cleanse Brain of Bad Memories
Is Gender Selection of a Fetus Ethical?
The Vegetarian Lesson
The Failure of Liberal Bioethics
B.C. Assisted Suicide Challenge Rejected
Boy or Girl? Sex Test Deemed Accurate
Patient Charges Doctors for Making Her Wait
Useless Studies, Real Harm: Carl Elliott
B.C. Right-to-Die Court Battles Continue
Kidney Sale Proposal Sparks Medical Ethics Debate
Who Said Doctors Can't Be Ethical and Successful?
Judge Rejects Lawsuit Against Stem Cell Research in US
At What Price, Immortality?
World’s First MSc in End-of-Life Ethics
Delegates Ask AMA Council How to Just Say No to Patients
Ethics Left Behind as Drug Trials Soar in Developing Countries
Court Decision on One Man’s Fate Renews Debate Over End-of-Life Care
AMA Ethics Proposal Becomes Policy
Heiress's Nurse Inherits $30 Million - But Should She?
Payment as Motivation for Reaching Health Goals Seen as Unfair
Your Body, Your Choice: Fight for Your Somatic Rights
Captain America’s Enlistment and Experimentation: Was It Ethical?
Could Prenatal DNA Testing Open Pandora’s Box?
End-of-Life Care: How You Can Help Stressed Surrogates
Rule Breaker
When Advance Directives Are Not Honored
An Apology's Healing Power
Narrative Medicine: Patient-Centered, Touchy-Feely Health Care
Proposal to Withhold Care from Sick Babies is Unethical, Vatican Adviser Says
Can We Develop and Test Machine Minds and Uploads Ethically?
Korean Bioethics Body Approves First Embryonic Stem Cell Test
Organs From Inmates? That Idea Should be DOA
Patients Are Not Consumers
Ethics, Not Finances, Need to be Remedied
Doctors Choose Riskier Care for Selves
Pre-pregnancy DNA Tests for Genetic Conditions Approved in UK
The Consequences of a Donor Kidney Market
WRHA Reports Make Recommendations About End-of-Life Care
Embryo Ethics: Finding a Home for Canada’s Frozen ‘Orphans’
Ethicists Question Effects of Health-Care Debate
Families Haunted by End-of-Life Decisions
U.S. Bioethics Panel to Review Clinical Trials Around the World
When Optimism Is Unrealistic
N.S. Mother Fights for Comatose Son
Are We More - Or Less - Moral Than We Think?
New Kidney Transplant Policy Would Favor Younger Patients
Physician Vaccination a Top Priority and a Duty
Case Raises Agonizing End-of-Life Questions
Informal May be Best Approach to End-of-Life Conversations
Surrogates' Consent for Feeding Tubes Not Always Realistic
Vatican to Update Bioethics Guide for Catholic Hospitals
Fertility Under Provincial Jurisdiction: Top Court
Doctors and Facebook: Is There a Privacy Risk?
D.N.R. by Another Name
Stunting Disabled Children's Growth is 'Morally Permissible,' Group Says
The Ethical Quandaries of Organ Transplant
Turning Off Heart Devices Near Life's End Stirs Ethical, Legal Debates
U.S. Orders Vast Review of Bioethics
A Robot Exhibits Bedside Manners - And Ethics
Parental Definition to Change in Alberta Family Law
Respecting Muslim Patients’ Needs
DNR Orders Must be Discussed: Doctors
‘Newgenics’ Still Rampant in AB, Conference Told
Beware the Miracle Cure
Ethics of Cosmetic Dentistry: Beneficence, Beauty or "Bucks"?
The Doctor Is In (But Shouldn’t Be)
What About IVF?
New York Asks to Bar Use of Food Stamps to Buy Sodas
The Ethics Of In Vitro Fertilization
Assisted Suicide Ad Banned in Canada
Ethical Dilemmas Nothing New for Critical-Care Nurses
Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End
Atheist Doctors 'More Likely to Hasten Death'
Euthanasia Debate Heats Up in Quebec
Who Should Decide When Care is Futile?
Hundreds of IVF Embryos Donated 'Without Consent'
Many Outraged as Accused Murderer Gets Liver Transplant
What It Takes to Become a Living Donor
What Should Medicine Do When it Can’t Save Your Life?
Some Doctors Join Facebook, Twitter; Others Wary
Province Offers Grant for Living Organ Donors
Bioethicists Examine Ethical Oversight in Quality Initiatives
A Prenatal Treatment Raises Questions of Medical Ethics
Doctors on the cutting edge of reality
Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday
Should People Be Paid to Stay Healthy?
When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects?
Q&A with Amy Gutmann of Presidential Commission for Study of Bioethical Issues
The Doctor's Inbox
What happens when medical, religious ethics clash?
Fertility Treatment Gets More Complicated
Fill End-of-Life Care Gaps: Cancer Group
Informed Consent: Hospitals Explore Personalizing Risks
Nun Excommunicated, Loses Hospital Post Over Decision on Abortion
Should Laws Push for Organ Donation?
The Moral Life of Babies
White House Tackles 'Synthetic Life' Ethics
Blogging the end of a life
End of life: Who should decide to stop treatment?
Health reform a hot topic in bioethics circles
Making your wishes known at the end of life
Maternal health and paternalism
Organ donors could get rewards
Study: People would donate kidneys for payment
TV doctors bring unethical behavior to prime time
US clinic sparks debate with UK human egg raffle
Where’d you go with my DNA?
Medical ethics report retracted due to plagiarism concerns