The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and the Rice University Department of Philosophy have come together to found the Baruch A.
A new international bioethics network, the Augustine Bioethics Network, supported by the Catholic Medical Association UK, was launched on 30 March, “to ...
Between Nov 24 and Nov 27, 2025, the International Chair in Bioethics held its 17th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Health Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia.1 Despite being hosted in a ...
“If you think you could go into this field [bioethics] and do justice to its profundity by talking only about a new regulation here, or a new informed-consent procedure there, you’ve missed the deep ...
The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) is urging the U.S. Senate to reject bill S.5, which would provide taxpayer money to support embryonic stem-cell research, a technique that requires the ...
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. For decades, rancorous debate about the ruling ...
The origin of medical ethics often boils down to the now-common expression “do no harm.” While an updated version of the Hippocratic Oath is still administered to many physicians as they begin their ...
UAB also won titles in 2011 and 2016. “These students’championship builds on their extensive knowledge of bioethics, each having had two or three courses in this area,” said Gregory Pence, Ph.D., ...