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The failure of countries that depend on migrant farm workers to guarantee professional medical interpretation for them when they get sick violates basic ethical principles and fundamental human rights. The post Lost in Translation: When Migrant Farm Workers Get Sick appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI declares that humanity must choose a path that safeguards us from its potential dangers and brings about a good outcome. The post If AI Replaced God, What Could We Demand of It? appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

The Enhanced Games markets itself as a celebration of human potential and athletic freedom, but its financial structure tells a different story. The post The Enhanced Games Are Paying Athletes Well – Too Well appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Karen Ann Quinlan’s surrogate decision-makers – her parents – won the right to turn off the ventilator that had been keeping their comatose daughter alive. The post 50 Years After Quinlan: The Woman Who Changed American Medicine appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Ageism is common in healthcare. Intergenerational friendships are not--but they could counter age-related bias. The post One Way to Combat Ageism in Healthcare appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

New ACOG guidelines for diagnosing endometriosis are welcome news for patients and reproductive justice. The post Updated Endometriosis Guidelines: A Step Forward in Ethical Reproductive Healthcare appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Across the country, families plead with medical professionals and courts for intervention when loved ones with serious mental illness refuse psychiatric treatment. The post We Need a Family Bill of Rights for Mental Healthcare appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Central to understanding ethics is grasping that being good is a way of being happy -- not in the superficial social sense of being rich or famous, but in a deep sense of experiencing integrity, or flourishing as a human being. The post Why Be Ethical? It’s Good for Us appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Case Narrative Amy is a 52-year-old with a medical history of heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, depression, and anxiety. She voluntarily goes to the emergency department because she... The post Should a DNR Be Honored for Patient with Suicidal Thoughts? appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been obsessed for decades with reducing or eliminating childhood vaccinations. He has long seen them as very dangerous,... The post The Bizarre and Dangerous Concept of Over-Vaccination appeared first on The Hastings Center for Bioethics .