But because medical-ethics standards are universal, the DOD position should not be acceptable to the medical profession, and the AMA has appropriately objected to it. 3 The Army surgeon general's ...

Holland Kaplan, MD, is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Section of General Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this Q&A with ...

Medical ethics prohibit forced feeding of competent hunger strikers who refuse treatment. Indian courts have upheld an ...

The practice of medicine in Nazi Germany still profoundly affects modern-day medical ethics codes, according to Alan Wells, Ph.D., an expert in medical ethics with the American Medical Association ...

he ethical guidelines laid out in the Hippocratic Oath nearly 2,500 years ago are about to collide with 21 st century artificial intelligence (AI). AI promises to be a boon to medical practice, ...

Last week I attended American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. One of the themes running through the event was ethics education. There was, for example, much ...

The scenario plays out countless times across hospital corridors: A medical student observes an attending physician dismissing a patient’s concerns, a resident falsifying documentation, or a colleague ...

A study by investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with colleagues from Rabin Medical Center in Israel and other collaborators, suggests that even the most ...

As the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, spreads across the globe, governments have been taking increasingly severe measures to limit the virus’s infection rate. China, where it originated, has instituted ...

KAMPALA -- The detention of opposition politician and lawyer Erias Lukwago has sparked a wider debate on medical ethics, with doctors and lawyers questioning whether his healthcare in custody is being ...