Immortal Surgeon General: C. Everett Koop, 40 years on
By Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD, MBA The remarkable impact on America of bearded, Presbyterian social conservative C. Eve...
March 27, 2021
Fourth Pillar or “Third Rail?:” Towards a Community-Centered Understanding of the Role of ...
by Justin C. Smith Molldrem and Smith’s thoughtful article “Reassessing the Ethics of Molecular HIV Surveillance in...
September 25, 2020
We Are People, Not Clusters!
by Edwin J. Bernard, Alexander McClelland, Barb Cardell, Cecilia Chung Marco Castro-Bojorquez, Martin French,...
September 25, 2020
Who Has A Right to Know A Person is COVID Positive: Lessons from HIV
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In a lawsuit this week, a judge in Cook County (IL) ruled against a suburban that wanted to forc...
May 6, 2020
What does the future hold for gene editing in China?
by Vera Lúcia Raposo, Ph.D. Last December it was made public that He Jiankui was sentenced to 3 years in prison and a fi...
January 15, 2020
Executive Order Changes Approaches to Treating Kidney Disease
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Few people would say that the system of payment and organ distribution is perfect. About 37 mill...
July 10, 2019
BioethicsTV (February 4-8, 2019): #TheResident, #TheGoodDoctor, #ChicagoMed, #GreysAnatomy
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Jump to The Resident (Season 2; Episode 13): A risky organ transplant; Jump to The Good Doctor (...
February 10, 2019
BioethicsTV (November 2016) Continued: Further commentary on Informed Consent
by Abhimanyu Amarnani Chicago Med (Season 2, Episode 8, 11/10/16). A December 1st BIOETHICSTV blog post briefly mentione...
December 20, 2016
Shooting Galleries: Time To Change Our Drug Policy
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A hospital in Paris has opened that country’s first “shooting gallery,” a medically supervised f...
October 26, 2016
Testing Donated Blood for Zika: Politics or Prudence?
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The FDA has announced that within the next 3 months, all donated blood in the United States shou...
August 29, 2016
Potential Organ Donation + HIV Infection = HOPE
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the HOPE Act (HR 698), a companion bill to o...
November 22, 2013
Caplan: Problems with At Home HIV Testing
Ultimately, at home HIV testing could be an important piece of HIV prevention and treatment. But there are important con...
May 17, 2012