Unlike simpler forms of testing used in IVF today, screening for polygenic diseases doesn't offer a clear diagnosis but rather a 'risk score' for a Pandora's box full of conditions

With myriad ethical issues prompted by the pandemic, Vardit Ravitsky has emerged as a prominent voice of morality and change in Canada's public health debate

In new book, Gabrielle Glaser spotlights Jewish New York's prestigious Louise Wise Agency as leader in unethical practices targeting newborns, birth mothers, and adoptive parents

With complex guidelines differing by jurisdiction, clergy may or may not be considered frontline workers -- a challenge as they strive to set an example for constituents

After Macron turns down his request for euthanasia, Alain Cocq refuses all food and drink, attempts to broadcast his final days to show 'agony' caused by French law

Eugene Lazowski is called a ‘Polish Schindler’ for rescuing 12 villages through medical subterfuge, but his ‘quarantine zone’ was declared too late for most of the region's Jews

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel -- brother of politician Rahm -- is working to get everyone in the US on the same page -- 'a page informed by science'

Doctors, ethicists in US fear they may have to decide who gets access to a life-saving ventilator -- and who doesn't

If coronavirus infections spiral, hospitals could find themselves with more patients than life-saving ventilators. Authorities should set criteria, but they won't, experts say

Judge sides with Dr. Yosef Glassman, who says providing life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients violates First Amendment Rights of religious health care professionals