The Hastings Center for Bioethics

A recent policy paper from the American College of Physicians said that the term provider should not be used for physician. Noting concern that providerdeemphasizes professional identity and important differences between physicians and nonphysic...

Last week, the New World screwworm, a fly whose larvae feed on the flesh of warm-blooded creatures, opening large wounds that become infected and often lead to death by sepsis, reappeared in the U.S. after a roughly 50-year absence. The flies occasionally attack humans, and the attack is reportedly excruciating—though one hardly needs to know that it’s painful to be thoroughl...

Carlos and seven other migrant farm workers were brought into a western Canadian hospital emergency department following a gas leak at the mushroom farm where they worked. But carbon monoxide exposure wasn’t Carlos’s only problem that day. The emergency department had no language interpretation services to understand or respond when Carlos pointed to his head and complained o...

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, declares that humanity faces “a pivotal choi...

Last year, Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev beat the 50-meter freestyle world record at a speed trial in North Carolina and walked away with a million dollars. But very few people thought that he’d beaten a “real” record because he was doped to the gills.

The event was a pilot for the