Imagine you're 83 years old, living with dementia in a long-term care home. Lately, your caregivers keep asking you to wear a ...

Whether by insurance or preference, Catholic health care’s presence in the United States is hard to ignore. In a recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the authors noted that 16 percent of ...

At any given time almost 90,000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney transplant, and every day 11 die waiting for one. Of these people, 35% are Black patients receiving dialysis for ...

Historically, philosophers have studied ethical theories that focused on how we make decisions based on what is morally right or wrong. But a somewhat newer branch known as care ethics, approaches ...

How should we define "death"? Who should decide when to withdraw life-sustaining treatment? How should we allocate donated organs? At Saint Louis University’s Department of Health Care Ethics, these ...

Meghan Abate '25 is a neuroscience major and an economics minor and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

Author discusses the ethics of disclosing the cost of treatments to patients before prescribing them and weighing financial risk vs medical care. The practice of medicine requires high moral standards ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A new bill proposed in the South Carolina legislature would allow health care providers to deny care that would violate their religious beliefs. The bill, also known as the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A bill that would allow medical professionals to refuse or deny care based on their own personal or religious beliefs passed the Tennessee Senate on Thursday. Senate Bill 955 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina ...