Brown is the vice president of medical affairs and patient advocacy at Southern Research and project lead for Catalyst. Sodeke is the resident bioethicist and professor of bioethics at the Center for ...

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity joined a joint service, multinational contingent this month to test the latest in military medical technology as part of the Army ...

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to the CIA’s MKUltra program and the recent ...

The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Skrmetti, released on Wednesday, delivered a welcome rebuke of the greatest medical scandal of our time. In a landmark victory for children's ...

Sure, psychological and medical experiments can have adverse effects. Tim Skellett has been on "both sides--as a subject and as an experimenter." He explains at The Guardian: "When I first went to ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A recent move by the new director of the National Institutes of Health to halt the use of taxpayer funds for medical experimentation on beagles has been applauded by several animal ...