Alzheimer's disease is a tragic and untreatable disorder--while there are drugs that can alleviate some of the symptoms, there is nothing yet on the market that can slow or stop the disease. Biomarker ...

The ethics of animal testing are fiercely debated. While clinical testing on humans is still an ethically grey area, all drugs tested on humans are first rigorously tested on animals. The ethics of ...

The grassroots organization 1Day Sooner has been asking people to indicate their willingness to volunteer for human challenge studies of COVID-19. Challenge studies, in which healthy people are ...

As a primary care doctor, I am deeply ashamed of our societal failure to practice the bare minimum standards of public health during this pandemic. I am unable to test my patients for COVID-19 with ...

Ugh, I hate ethical questions like this, because they always describe situations that would never happen in real life without a million other conditions that no ethical test could ever account for.

Albany, N.Y. — The New York attorney general’s office called on ethics investigators Thursday to look into reports that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others connected to him received special access to ...

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The country faces a slew of safety, ethical and logistical challenges to restart long-halted nuclear tests. It could still happen.

In the week leading up to a Power Five conference game last November, a prominent program went on the road with a plane full of players infected with the flu. "We didn't tell [the opponent] who all ...