Reflecting on Jack Kevorkian, Dead at Age 83
Dr. Jack Kevorkian died at age 83 Friday morning at a Michigan hospital. Kevorkian was a controversial figure; outspoken on assisted suicide, the doctor said he helped 130 people who had chosen to end...
View ArticleAre Profits Driving Medical Research?
On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow interviewed Dr. Jonas Salk on the CBS show, "See it Now." Salk’s polio vaccine had just been proven effective in preventing the disease. Murrow asked who owned the...
View Article60 Lives Connected in the Largest Chain of Kidney Transplants
Coming up, when Candice needed a kidney, her husband Michael was ready to give one up – but her body wouldn't accept it. So he gave it to someone else – in order let his wife get a stranger's kidney....
View ArticleOrgan Donation in the Age of Social Networking
Facebook has experimented with a lot of new and questionable plans over the years, from their controversial default privacy settings to their timeline layout, which some users love, and others hate....
View ArticleThe Case of the 'Cyclops Child'
Doctor Fredric Neuman is now the director of the Anxiety and Phobia Center at White Plains Hospital. But when he was a medical intern, he saw something no one should ever have to see.In a recent blog...
View ArticleBioethical Questions Raised by 'Cyclops Baby'
A recent blog post by Dr. Fredric Neuman has stirred up questions about the ethics surrounding babies born with fatal deformities. When he was an intern in 1960, Neuman recalls a baby born with...
View ArticleThe Medical Ethics of Force-Feeding Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
This week a large team of “medical reinforcements” including Navy nurses, corpsmen, and specialists, were deployed to Guantanamo Bay as a response to the ongoing inmate hunger strike.With about 100...
View ArticleDo No Harm? A Look at Doctors & the Death Penalty
After a doctor recognized that the execution of Oklahoma prisoner Clayton Lockett was going terribly wrong earlier this week, prison officials pulled a curtain to shield the witnesses from what was...
View ArticleA Number
Kids are prone to asking questions, like “where did I come from?” These become harder to answer when you’ve cloned your son, but no one’s really sure how many of them were made. In Caryl Churchill’s...
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Physicians on Pharma’s Payroll: Educators or Marketers?
Most people getting a prescription for a drug don’t ask if their doctor is getting paid to promote that drug. But thousands of physicians all over the country get paid by pharmaceutical companies to...
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New York's Top Earners from Seven Big Pharmaceutical Companies
This list is based on data released by ProPublica on Oct. 19, 2010. They identified 384 health providers who earned more than $100,000 total from one or more of the following seven companies that have...
View ArticleTwo-Minus-One Pregnancy
Ruth Padawer, a writer and professor who covers health and gender issues, discusses her recent article for the New York Times Magazine about the ethical decision of reducing twins to a single fetus....
View ArticleAnesthesia Awareness and the Nature of Consciousness
Joshua Lang, medical student at the UC Berkeley/USCF Joint Medical Program and contributor to The Atlantic, discusses the problem of patients becoming aware while under anesthesia -- and why measuring...
View ArticlePost-Sandy Mold; Medical Ethics; Organizing for Action; Food Expiration
Mold is a threat to public health post-Sandy. Michael Reilly, Columbia health sciences professor, discusses the public health risks of mold in buildings damaged by Sandy. Plus: a new series on medical...
View ArticleCloning for Embryonic Stem Cells
Arthur Caplan, professor and the director of the division of medical ethics at the NYU School of Medicine, discusses the news that scientists have successfully used cloning to produce human embryonic...
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Big data meets modern medicine in a life-saving equation
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSFOR TEACHERS: How should money be spent to support global health? JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: using big data to assess medical treatments and interventions and...
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Is China still gathering organs from executed prisoners?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioWILLIAM BRANGHAM: Decades ago, China began a practice that human rights advocates and medical ethicists condemned: taking organs, such as kidneys and livers, from...
View ArticleA Hospital's Offer to Treat a Terminally Ill Baby Raises Ethical Questions
New York Presbyterian Hospital has offered to treat Charlie Gard, a terminally ill British baby at the center of a legal battle that has drawn international attention. His parents raised $1.7 million...
View ArticleDigital Pills: The New Frontiers of Medicine
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Earlier this week, the FDA approved a digital version of the antipsychotic medication Abilify. Each pill contains a tiny sensor that, once...
View ArticleAdvocates Worry About New HHS Division for Religious Objections
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentOn Thursday, Acting Health and Human Services Director Eric Hargan announced a new office within the administration’s civil rights division. The...
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