Bill of Health

JUNE 13, 2022

The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.” Correspondingly, most medical school ethics courses review issues related to consent, end-of-life care, and confidentiality.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

Canada’s MAID law has some safeguards to prevent patients from being coerced into MAID, such as requiring cognitive capacity to consent, voluntary informed consent, assessors and witnesses who are independent of each other and who have no conflicts of interest, and waiting periods between different stages of the process.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 29, 2022

But many routine practices — assessing capacity, acquiring informed consent, advance care planning, and allocating resources, for instance — are. And given the importance of these endpoints, it is worth determining whether ethics education improves clinicians’ decision making across these domains.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The importance of this research, say scientists working in the area, is to give us more information regarding early human pregnancy failures, furnishing knowledge, currently unavailable, on how human embryos develop post-gastrulation. The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos first appeared on Bill of Health.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 8, 2023

As the scientific community grapples with how to respond, theories of criminal justice can provide important perspectives to better inform the conversation surrounding Dr. He’s return to research. While some see the value in encouraging open and respectful dialogue with Dr. He, others are wary of “ giving him a platform.”

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2024

Advocates for commercial surrogacy argue that financial incentives alone do not compromise informed consent and in fact, a lack of payment for surrogacy services could be exploitative.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Ashley Shew Far too often, when people write and talk about technology and disability, stories are deeply shaped by ableism. Often when devices are painted as “solving the problem of disability” or “empowering disabled people,” they suggest that being disabled is itself a problem, and that people should try to be as nondisabled as possible.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By Matthew Chun. A scientist’s high-tech approach to assisted suicide is already available for use in Switzerland and is actively being campaigned for in the United Kingdom. Could the United States be next? Dr. Philip Nitschke — nicknamed “Dr.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Disability-inclusive climate decision-making and solutions are not only essential for safeguarding the lives and dignity of persons with disabilities, but may also enhance the equity and effectiveness of the global transition to climate-resilient and low-carbon societies.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Organoids generate information and data, and a single organoid model can even be hooked up to a “system” with other organoids to model systems and interrelated processes at once. The production of these models occurs in-lab, often involving stem cells that can divide and organize into tissues and organs on their own.

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