Every year, millions of animals are used in laboratories, and for many people, the image is immediate and uncomfortable: ...

The Committee on Assessing Genetic Risks, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, emphasizes autonomy, confidentiality, privacy, and equity (justice) as being foundational for ...

What would you sacrifice to push efforts forward on eliminating diseases? What about to make sure our products and medicines are safe, especially for our most vulnerable? These questions lead us to ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Whether it’s emerging infectious diseases, concerns over fraud, or any other headline-grabbing issue, medical diagnostics testing is an industry that plays a key role in our daily lives. To some ...

The mutation that causes Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) can be detected in a prenatal screen. But a parent's decision to test for this terrible disease is not as easy as you would think. Families that ...

Raghav Gupta is majoring in neuroscience with a minor in philosophy and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. During the Christmas of ...

While genetic testing for cancer has some obvious benefits, it also creates ethical dilemmas in many cases. When it comes to genetic mutations that can lead to cancer, “Knowledge is power. This ...

Mandatory drug testing of employees is highly controversial. Some feel it is an unnecessary expense that results in unwarranted job loss due to urine analyses that are unrelated to job performance.