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British families have accused a Swiss euthanasia clinic of helping their loved ones die without any medical justification. Judith Hamilton, from London told how her 47-year-old son Alastair claimed to ...

Organ harvesting has surged across Canada, fueled by controversial assisted suicides offered to people battling depression, not terminal illness. Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in ...

I recently left my home in New York to move across the country and start med school at Stanford. My weeks are busy, filled with long lectures and social engagements. Although medical school is ...

A new international survey reveals sharp divisions among clinicians on the acceptability of euthanasia for patients with dementia who request it, with nearly half in favor and almost as many opposed. ...

For years, advocates of legalizing physician-assisted suicide have recited a comforting refrain: Don’t worry, they assure skeptics worried about the dangers of allowing doctors to prescribe lethal ...

Byron Black died on 5 August 2025 in a Tennessee execution chamber, strapped to a gurney, a large dose of pentobarbital surging through his veins. He was 66, in poor health, and carried inside him a ...

National Taiwan Normal University will dismiss a coach who threatened to withhold credits from student athletes unless they gave blood samples to a research project. Chou Tai-ying will be prevented ...

Even the most powerful AI models, including ChatGPT, can make surprisingly basic errors when navigating ethical medical decisions, a new study reveals. Researchers tweaked familiar ethical dilemmas ...

This story has been updated to include new information. A Tennessee woman has said she was denied prenatal care by her physician due to being unmarried. During a town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, ...

Madison Patrick is a sociology and public health major and a 2024-25 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Despite the invaluable contribution of medical ...