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

Test tube baby, now baby mama, talks about what it is like to become a parent.

Should a live saving surgery be forced onto a patient who may not understand the implications of not having surgery?

Will Mary Carmichael take the genetic test? She weighs the pros and cons one final time.

News of "cloneburgers" in supermarkets have made Britons batty. Anyone for a "Dolly chop?"

The battle over biomarkers--will they be used for good or evil?

Hank Greely and others weigh in on DTC genetic testing for Day Three of Mary Carmichael's odyssey.

Is screening African American athletes for sickle cell trait discriminatory or providing opportunity for tailored training and improved knowledge of one's body?

Mary Carmichael asks an important prior question: should these tests even be on the market?

Ever wanted to prep your own cadaver?

How much science spending is too much science spending?

Dr. Atul Gawande discusses a topic he admits he doesn't know how to talk about himself: his dying patients.

"Break patent and give me the drug!" say Fabry disease patients, raising the question of when HHS can invoke march-in rights to allow other manufacturers to produce drugs in a shortage.

A happy medium for patients who are ready to die and for families who cannot imagine "starving them to death."

GAO reports that DTC genetic test results are unreliable and marketing over-promises. You don't say!

To swap or not to swab? Reporter Mary Carmichael chronicles her week deliberating about whether to take a direct-to-consumer genetic test.

Little discussed, bone marrow donation has many of the same ethical and social issues of other major tissue and organ donations.

It is ethically and legally permissible to turn off LVAD in compliance with patience requests.

Can a hospital refuse to give patient tissue samples along with medical records? Many more patients are asking the question in the era of paersonalized medicine.

ALS patient expresses wishes to give up his organs--while his is living.

The great Spanish IVF embryo giveaway has resulted in uncertainty about biological parenthood for hundreds of couples in the UK.