Medical opposition to capital punishment is needed as executions surge, researcher argues
The health care community has an important role in opposing the death penalty, argues an expert in The BMJ.
Oct 1, 2025
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Humanities: News and Research on Ethics
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Conflicts of interest on CDC vaccine panel were at historic lows before RFK Jr. dismissal, new research finds
When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently fired an entire federal vaccine advisory panel, he described the unprecedented move as necessary to rid the committee of industry influence.
Aug 18, 2025
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Collaborative initiative highlights successes and challenges in global bioethics training
A new Penn Nursing initiative explores the impact of federally funded international bioethics training programs. The collaborative initiative, published in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, highlights ...
Jul 23, 2025
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AI stumbles on medical ethics puzzles, echoing human cognitive shortcuts
A study by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with colleagues from Rabin Medical Center in Israel and other collaborators, suggests that even the most advanced artificial intelligence ...
Jul 22, 2025
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Conflicts of interest must be tackled to protect public health, argue researchers
A new peer‐reviewed article by academics at the University of Bath warns that unless governments take urgent steps to address conflicts of interest with harmful industries—including tobacco, alcohol, ultra‐processed food, ...
Jul 1, 2025
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Q&A: How halt in funding hurts efforts to ensure safety of patients in medical research
The Trump administration's freeze of more than $2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard has disrupted work in a number of areas, including efforts to ensure the rights and safety of patients who take part in medical ...
Apr 29, 2025
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The role of journals in medical misconduct
Editors of medical journals deal with allegations of research misconduct, defined by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in the U.S. as fabrication, falsification and plagiarism. Research misconduct threatens the validity ...
Mar 27, 2025
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LLMs like ChatGPT are ready to teach medical ethics, researchers argue
Perhaps no profession has stricter ethical standards than medicine, and ethics is considered essential in the education of any respected medical school. A new essay by researchers at Hiroshima University (Japan) provides ...
Mar 26, 2025
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What the 'moral distress' of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care
I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions.
Feb 4, 2025
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Hospitals that serve more Black patients have poorer nurse staffing, study finds
Picture two patients receiving acute care: one is hospitalized in a unit where three nurses have five patients and three have six, and another where all six nurses have six patients. Evidence has shown that higher nurse staffing ...
Jan 14, 2025
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