Bioethics Education
My Doctors Blamed My Itch on Perimenopause. It Was Cancer.
(WSJ) – Two years, 11 doctors and one diagnosis later, I’ve learned a lot about how medicine can miss women’s symptoms I was diagnosed...
Bioethics Education
Killing People Is Not the Same as Allowing Them to Die
(CT) – Our culture idolizes independence and self-sufficiency to the point that people fear dependence on others more than almost anything else. The feeling...
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Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers?
(New York Times) – Aging means “becoming a target” of the industry, one expert said. After decades of debate, politicians of all stripes are...
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Primary care is in trouble. Doctors are banding together to increase market power
(NPR) – “It has to do with the fact that our [insurance] contracts don’t pay as well as we think they should,” Carlan said....
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The mysterious symptom popping up in some GLP-1 users
(Vox) – What if you lost weight and didn’t care — about anything? GLP-1s are relatively new and the industry is rapidly expanding, so...
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Fertility patients win high court battle to save embryos after consent error
(The Guardian) – Judge says people should not lose chance of parenthood ‘by the ticking of a clock’ after 10-year deadline missed Lawyers for...
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Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless
(The Atlantic) – Sid now works on a rare-disease program within the National Institutes of Health. Since he first found out that he was...
Bioethics Education
4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease
(New York Times) – Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the...
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Puerto Rico governor signs law to recognize fetus as human being as critics warn of consequences
(AP) – Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday signed a bill that amends a law to recognize a fetus as a human being, a move...
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WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as “unethical”
(Ars Technica) – The World Health Organization on Friday released a formal statement blasting a US-funded vaccine trial as “unethical,” because it would withhold...
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Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers
(Wired) – EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help in making AI-human relationships a “new normal.”...
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Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
(Wired) – The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative...
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The Guthrie Kidnapping Has Families Rethinking Senior Safety and Independence
(WSJ) – A nightmare scenario makes a difficult family conversation even harder as children weigh their parents’ wishes to age in place The unimaginable...
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France sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having children
(Independent) – France plans to send a letter to all 29-year-olds in the country encouraging them to have babies before it is “too late”....
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New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment
(New York Times) – A study reported that the conventional method of searching follicular fluid didn’t find all the eggs. The new technology found...