Healthcare ethics isn’t just theory—it’s the daily reality for providers balancing patient autonomy, safety, and trust. From HIPAA compliance to AI transparency, modern medicine demands moral clarity ...

The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy researches and influences policy on today’s most pressing ethical issues. We are one of the biggest and fastest growing ethics centers in the country, ...

The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often ...

CMSRU graduate Amir Davoodi combines medicine, ethics and public health to pursue compassionate, community-centered care and ...

Medical ethics underpins trust, safety, and fairness in healthcare. Clinicians must apply guiding principles and legal duties to complex, often ambiguous situations. Learning structured approaches now ...

Explore the importance of speaking up in medical ethics and the consequences of silence in professional integrity.

Following a days-long delay in the release of information about Defense Secretary Austin's condition, NPR's Michel Martin asks medical ethicist Keisha Ray about privacy rights of public officials. The ...

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 ...

If history is our guide on how much a president may disclose about his health, the guide shows us he doesn't always tell us everything. From Presidents James Madison to Abraham Lincoln, Grover ...

Medical scientists are stricter while natural, social and humanities scientists are more permissive. The attitude to ...

Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is a nasty bug. It’s the leading cause of hospitalizations among American infants and results in thousands of deaths among the elderly each year. So this year, ...

A doctor and medical educator discussed medical practice and ethics during the Holocaust and warned against recreating them in modern medicine at a seminar to commemorate International Holocaust ...