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

While more patients Google for health information, the chronically ill face a health disparity in access to information. What gives?

Anonymity for sperm donors should not be allowed and the ethics of the industry should be questioned say the children born of sperm donation.

Grieving survivors remember the deceased wishes and give their organs which "live on" to accomplish amazing things in their recipients.

Without charging a co-pay and dispensing medical information along with medication, pharmacists are filling the gaps in the healthcare system. But is that a good thing?

ABSTRACT (Source: Bioethics)

Abstract  Under other circumstances, I would have written an academic paper rehearsing the arguments for and against legalization of physician-assisted suicide: autonomy and the avoidance of pain and suffering on the pro side, the wrongness of killing, the integrity of the medical profession, and the risk of abuse, the “slippery slope,” on the con side. I’ve always supported the pro side. What this paper is, however, is a highly personal account of the challenges to my thinking about right-to-die issues. In November 2008, my husband suffered a C2/C3 spinal cord injury in a bicycle collision, leaving him ventilator-dependent, almost completely paralyzed, and in the hospital—but fully alert and profoundly self-reflective. What if he wanted to die? This paper draws fro...

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Did drug makers pay foreign physicians for patient participation in clinical trials? The federal investigation broadens....

Five-day contraception pill approved. Another option for women or an abortion pill?

Engineered sugar beets no more? How will this effect other genetically engineered food crops? Are there any crops any more that aren't engineered?

UC Berkeley's "Bring Your Genes to Cal" Has Been Changed to "Cal Will Keep Your Genes Now".

One nurse wonders whether we have gone too far in keeping the elderly with dementia alive.

DTC genetic tests are under scrutiny--can the industry survive?

Jonathan Moreno weighs in on new Alzheimer's test.

Questions about regulation open up even more questions about who should test, who owns genetic information, and more.

Companies are waking up to the reality that employees who become caregivers need assistance.

Take climate change off the back burner--or you will be roasted alive. Just ask Peter Singer.

Craig Venter has given us a reason to be afraid. Very afraid.

One in 20 graduate medical trainees commit the "cardinal sin of academic life" by stealing others' ideas for their residency applications.

Social scientist's research on the basis of morality under investigation.

Do you know what I'm thinking? Getting inside our minds for the good of society, or are we?