This is the initial article in an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles will consider the ethical ...

Without guardrails, AI risks intensifying inequality and emotional strain for women under the banner of efficiency.

Every year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health organizes a Bioethics Symposium to bring together distinguished scholars from diverse backgrounds and explore topics that ...

Informed by the Catholic, Jesuit values of Saint Louis University, the Department of Health Care Ethics is committed to interdisciplinary excellence in health care ethics teaching, research and ...

Home Markkula Center for Applied Ethics About the Center Center News Exploring AI in Health Care and the Promise and Peril for Patients and Society Quote from Guadalupe Hayes-Mota on Ethics and AI in ...

Stephen Speicher, MD, Flatiron Health, highlights the organization's frameworks for ensuring ethical artificial intelligence (AI) usage, emphasizing the importance of providers and health systems ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

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.

Healthcare reform is the talk of the town these days. Key to reforming our healthcare system is to reduce waste and eliminate excess cost. Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) are one solution ...

I am concerned about the marketing strategies some retail-based health clinics use. Clinicians are encouraged to stroll through the aisles wearing lab coats and asking shoppers about their health-care ...

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 ...