Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia ...ethics in action

Think of it as the LiveStrong Games, but everyone is competing with someone else's organs.

What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?

Should doctors have given organ to someone else on long waiting list?

We need to make extraordinary advances in energy sources, and we have to do if fast, or, to put it simply, the 22nd century will look like the 17th. We need to constrain our use of fossil fuels as much as possible.

Somewhere along the line we’ve developed the habit of announcing that, thanks to new technologies, we’re forever on the verge of revolutionizing what it means to be human.

In a laboratory where almost all the test tubes look green, the tools of modern biotechnology are being applied to lowly pond scum.

The use of genetic analysis called kinship searching resulted in an arrest in the Grim Sleeper case, but has raised privacy issues and other social concerns.

People on organ transplant lists are utilizing social media to find organ donors.

An investigation discovers some direct-to-consumer gene test companies provide inaccurate information in addition to false marketing.

Incentives encourage people to become healthier but is it a long-term solution?

F.D.A. votes against an "obesity drug" due to concerns of potential dangerous side effects.

New criteria could lead to earlier Alzheimer diagnoses which leaves at-risk family members questioning if they want to know their risk.

Genetic engineering, increased understanding of the immune system and new immunization delivery technologies could make this century the golden age of vaccines, observers say.

Question of whether eggs should be harvested from woman on life support plunges specialists into tough terrain.

Doctors in Korea can remove life support if a terminally-ill patient wishes to die.

Government experts and a panel of medical advisers repeatedly voiced skepticism on Tuesday about the trustworthiness of GlaxoSmithKline, which makes the controversial diabetes drug Avandia.

A survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that workplace monitoring of impaired or incompetent physicians is not what you'd call common.

One practitioner's perceived good deed for a dying patient could be another's definition of homicide.

Singularity would mean a future in which humans and technology fully converge, but some voice skepticism about the idea. Why? The complexity of the human mind.

Scientists have isolated human antibodies which succeeded at preventing the infection of human cells with more than 90 percent of HIV strains. But will ethical concerns about the research prevent its advance?