The world of bioethics is defined by four basic principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and nonmaleficence. Healthcare practitioners use these principles as their guiding force when evaluating 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dr. Robin Downing is a polymath (that means ...

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 ...

A former Jesuit priest and leader in bioethics, he believed that an ethicist should be part of a patient’s medical team when hard decisions have to be made. By Gina Kolata Albert R. Jonsen, who ...

The University of Mary’s campus in Rome is bursting at the seams, its program in Arizona is flourishing, and its main campus in Bismarck, N.D., is launching a new graduate degree in answer to secular ...