Moral and ethical decisions come with the turf of being a doctor. Some of those decisions have massive consequences that affect people's lives forever. Other ethical issues, although not ...

Claims by President Donald Trump's former physician that the President's representatives essentially forced him to surrender Trump's medical records to them raise a number of questions about whether ...

In a new book, bioethicist and internist Barron Lerner recalls how he came to question some of his father's medical practices — practices that... 'Good Doctor' Puts Past Medical Practices Under An ...

TORONTO — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed under ...

Recently, medical workers at Israeli hospitals told BBC News that Palestinian detainees from Gaza were “shackled and blindfolded” while they received treatment. Physicians owe a duty to their patients ...

TORONTO (AP) — A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker given meager government assistance, and grieving new widows. All of them requested to be killed ...

Evidence continues to point to the fact that Hamas has been able to exploit the protected status of hospitals, granted under international humanitarian law, in order to wage aggression against Israel ...

A South African doctor shared a GBV case where he treated both victim and attacker in one shift, sparking debate about ...

(Reuters Health) - As more and more sick patients are going online and using social media to search for answers about their health, it’s raising a lot of thorny ethical questions for doctors. “The ...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada has arguably the world's most permissive system of euthanasia — the practice of doctors and nurse practitioners killing patients with an injection of drugs at their request.

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