DALLAS — Bishops hashed out the thorniest issues in cutting-edge medicine in Dallas this winter. More than 150 bishops from the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines gathered at the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the critical need for access to accurate and timely information about ethical issues surrounding decision-making in science, medicine, and public health. To ...

DALLAS — Every two years the National Catholic Bioethics Center holds its “bishops’ workshop” to examine some of the more difficult issues in bioethics. This year the workshop — one of the largest ...

The International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune held its second annual international conference in Rome on May 17–18 to reflect on the bioethical challenges surrounding the health and care of ...

Mark Aulisio, the Susan E. Watson Professor and chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, weighed in on bioethical issues that have arisen as a result ...

WASHINGTON – A presidential advisory council on bioethics began examining Thursday the ethical, scientific and legal issues surrounding human cloning, an issue that now rests before the Congress.

It wasn’t that long ago that the term “bioethics” wasn’t well known. But more than any other American scientist, Dr. Arthur Caplan has been credited for bringing this somewhat abstract intersection of ...

In 1927, the ethicality of eugenics faced a major test in the U.S. Supreme Court. Eugenics won, and Carrie Buck was the victim. The historic Buck v. Bell case legitimized the forced sterilization of ...

Alexander Levi, a trustee emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, and his wife Vicki have made a gift of $15 million to the university's Berman Institute of Bioethics to support the education and ...

Ever since his unexpected victory, the media have been obsessing over what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for a range of important issues, such as the Paris Agreement on climate change, border ...