🧬 New York Magazine highlights our debate, “The Embryo Frontier: Editing Human Life,” featuring CEO and Founder at Origin Genomics @CathyTie and Harvard Law’s I. Glenn Cohen, moderated by Hastings President @VarditRavitsky. 👶🔬⚖️ https://bit.ly/49pzMk4

🚨 NEW in the Hastings Bioethics Forum: “The Enhanced Games Are Paying Athletes Well — Too Well.” https://bit.ly/4dw6di0 #abstract #Bioethics #SportsEthics #EnhancedGames #Doping #Athletes #SportsNews

🚨 NEW Hastings Center Report essay: “Rethinking Mandated Drug Treatment: Why Expanding Freedom Requires Structural Drug Policy Reform” Can mandated drug treatment truly promote freedom and justice? 🤔 🔗 : https://bit.ly/3PHbBXw

🚨 NEW in the Hastings Bioethics Forum: “The Enhanced Games Are Paying Athletes Well — Too Well.” Author argues the issue isn’t just doping… it’s whether huge financial incentives threaten athletes’ autonomy. 💰⚖️ https://bit.ly/4dw6di0 #Bioethics #EnhancedGames #Sports 

📣 Calling advanced doctoral candidates in the United States! Apply by June 5 to become a 2026–2027 Hastings Center Sadler Scholar. 🎓✨ 🔗 Apply here: https://bit.ly/4cVAsym #Bioethics #AIEthics #Genomics #HealthcareEthics #PhDStudents #DoctoralStudents #AcademicOpportunities

⚖️ The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on certain gender-affirming treatments for minors in United States v. Skrmetti. A new Hastings Center Report essay examines the Court’s reasoning...🏳️‍⚧️ https://bit.ly/4935zHu #Bioethics #TransRights #GenderAffirmingCare #LGBTQHealth

🤝 How do we measure organizational trustworthiness in community-engaged research? TRUST TEAM is PCORI funded project using community-engaged methods to co-develop a first-of-its-kind, psychometrically sound measure of organizational trustworthiness.📊 https://bit.ly/4d9PWAo

🧬 Gene-editing therapies for sickle cell disease offer groundbreaking hope—but are they truly a “cure”? ⚖️ A NEW Hastings Center Report essay argues that calling them a cure is misleading... https://bit.ly/4dmH752

🎧 Public radio show @npr.org 1a interviews Julia Kolak our Assistant Director of Research, discusses the growing use of remote ICU care & the need for more evidence on safety and effectiveness.. ⚕️💻 🔗 https://bit.ly/4nrgtfW #Bioethics #Telemedicine #CriticalCare #MedicalEthics

📚 Join behavior geneticist Paige Harden at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social on May 26 for a discussion of her new book, Original Sin: The Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness 🧬⚖️ #Bioethics #Genetics #BehaviorGenetics #Ethics #Neuroscience #BookTalk

⚖️ Can mandated drug treatment help address addiction-driven crime—or does it go too far? Read more: https://bit.ly/3RouJtX #Bioethics #Addiction #SubstanceUseDisorder #CriminalJustice #PublicHealth #MedicalEthics #DrugPolicy

🧬 Your "digital twin" could help predict disease, personalize treatment, and test therapies without risk—but at what cost? 🤖⚖️ Read more: https://bit.ly/3PF7POt #Bioethics #AIethics #MedicalEthics #DataPrivacy #DigitalTwin #HealthcareInnovation

🕊️ Karen Ann Quinlan’s parents won the right to remove the ventilator keeping their daughter alive — reshaping patient autonomy, end-of-life care, and medical ethics in the U.S. ⚖️🏥 https://bit.ly/4uIQWRM #MedicalEthics #EndOfLifeCare #PatientRights #HealthcareHistory

🎤 Hastings President @varditravitsky.bsky.social is speaking this week at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Health AI: What Makes Humans Special?” 🤖🧠 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ewUVbv7r #Bioethics #AIinHealthcare #MedicalEthics #FutureOfMedicine #ArtificialIntelligence

Hastings President @varditravitsky.bsky.social was featured on France TV discussing the growing trend of embryo selection. 🧬📺 🎥: https://bit.ly/4u7I60f #Bioethics #EmbryoSelection #Genetics #ReproductiveEthics #MedicalEthics #FutureOfMedicine

🆕 Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: After a suicide attempt, a 71yr old woman arrived in the ICU in shock—but breathing on her own. A DNR request, scribbled on a napkin 📝, was found beside her. Should it be honored? 🔗: https://bit.ly/4detbtI

📣 The Hastings Center for Bioethics 2025 Impact Report is here! 🧬 Science, 🩺 health, and 🤝 public trust are under pressure—and we responded. We’re proud to share our first-ever interactive Impact Report, designed to be explored, not just read. 🔗: https://bit.ly/3QMP0cy

👩‍⚕️📚 Hastings Research Scholar, Carolyn Neuhaus and Professor of Bioethics at Albany Medical College, Johanna Crane explore the key ethical challenges in community health—highlighting issues of trust, equity, and the real-world complexities of care. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3OZzTvL

🎉 Congratulations to our Research Scholar, Carolyn P. Neuhaus, PhD on being named a 2026 recipient of the Montefiore Einstein Bioethics Award for Excellence in Bioethics Education! Learn more, https://bit.ly/42OQ7uR

🆕 NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay: Updated Endometriosis Guidelines: A Step Forward in Ethical Reproductive Healthcare 🩺✨ 🔗: https://bit.ly/3QIaFCI #Endometriosis #ReproductiveHealth #Bioethics #ReproductiveJustice #WomensHealth

📣 Calling advanced doctoral candidates in the United States! Apply by June 5 to become a 2026–2027 Hastings Center Sadler Scholar. 🎓✨ 🔗 Apply here: https://bit.ly/4cVAsym #Bioethics #AIEthics #Genomics #HealthcareEthics #PhDStudents #DoctoralStudents #AcademicOpportunities

The recording of our lively debate from 4/23/26, “The Embryo Frontier: Editing Human Life" is available now! 🧬Watch here: https://bit.ly/4eie4BY #Bioethics #GeneEditing #CRISPR #Healthcare #Ethics #FutureOfMedicine #HastingsCenter #ScienceDebate

✨ 2026 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award recipients! 🏆 Awards: -Dr. Noelle Marie Javier: the Dr. Richard Payne Senior Leadership Award -Dr. Amar D. Bansal, Dr. Gina Piscitello and Dr. Ramy Sedhom: Three Early-Career Physician Awards @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4dQDCWw

Yale University Bioethics Summer Institute 🎓🧠 Join the “Foundations in Bioethics” program this May (remote!) and dive into ethics in research, law, and clinical care. 🌍 https://bit.ly/48l1f62 #Bioethics #Yale #SummerInstitute #MedicalEthics #PublicHealth #TechEthics

TikTok’s algorithm often amplifies controversial, emotionally charged content 🔥—but how does that shape our values? 🤔 Article in Bioethics Today, co-authored by Hastings Sadler Scholar Odia Kane. https://bit.ly/41SF5Ev

Last chance to join us virtually TOMORROW for our Annual Daniel Callahan Program. We will have a lively debate...Should we edit human #embryos to prevent disease—or does it go too far? #GeneEditing ⚖️ 🔗: https://bit.ly/47LdOXR

🧠📢NEW essay in the Hastings Bioethics Forum: “We Need a Family Bill of Rights for Mental Healthcare.” Serious mental illness affects 6% of Americans, with far higher rates among homelessness. Yet families have little formal voice in care decisions... https://bit.ly/4cw89GM

📄✨ Paper in the American Journal of Public Health co-authored by HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social “Navigating ‘Wicked’ Disagreement in Public Health.” 🔗: https://bit.ly/4r23Jxg #PublicHealth #Bioethics #HealthPolicy #EthicsInPublicHealth #TrustInScience

✨ NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by HC Fellows Larry Churchill and Nancy King explores why ethics is more than deciding whether to be good — it’s about learning how to be good through reflection, practice, and habit. 📖 Read: https://bit.ly/4tD0eOP

🧬 Join The University of Cincinnati (Center for Public Engagement with Science) for a virtual conversation discussing the new book “A Conversation on Bioethical Responsibilities in 21st Century Crises”. 👉 Register here, https://bit.ly/48CZZep

📣 We’re excited to share that HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker at the Origène ReproTech Summit 2026 on April 14th! Vardit will explore the ethical questions shaping the future of #Fertility care, #ReproductiveTechnologies, and innovation.

Join us virtually on 4/23 for our Annual Daniel Callahan Program. We will have a lively debate...Should we edit human #embryos to prevent disease—or does it go too far? This timely subject tackles the science, ethics, and future of #GeneEditing ⚖️ 🔗: https://bit.ly/47LdOXR

📣 Michigan friends—don’t miss this! 👀 @umich.edu is hosting the Arts, Social Sciences, & Ethics in Medicine Symposium & Bishop Lecture in Bioethics, featuring special guest @VarditRavitsky, President of The Hastings Center for Bioethics. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4twGdJQ

Join us virtually on 4/23 for our Annual Daniel Callahan Program. We will have a lively debate...Should we edit human #embryos to prevent disease—or does it go too far? This timely subject tackles the science, ethics, and future of #GeneEditing ⚖️ 🔗: https://bit.ly/47LdOXR

🚨 Episode of The Pitt, two #ICE agents bring a patient into the ER after a raid at her workplace. The show gets a lot right — but it also exposes the same gaps we see in real hospital policies today. 🔗 NEW HC Bioethics Forum essay, read https://bit.ly/3QieldO

🤖🏥 New in Bioethics Briefings: AI in Healthcare #AI is transforming medicine—writing clinical notes, assisting diagnoses, answering patient messages, & even offering mental health support. But how much of #healthcare should stay fundamentally human? 🔗 https://bit.ly/4v3WAPB

Join us virtually on 4/23 for our Annual Daniel Callahan Program. We will have a lively debate...Should we edit human #embryos to prevent disease—or does it go too far? This timely subject tackles the science, ethics, and future of #GeneEditing ⚖️ 🔗: https://bit.ly/47LdOXR

🧠 Who gets a say in defining mental health?   The DSM—psychiatry’s diagnostic manual—is being revised, but people with lived experience have long been left out. A new HC Report article argues they deserve a meaningful voice in the process.   📖: https://bit.ly/4szR31o

History teaches—even now amid challenges to science & academia, there’s still hope for U.S. leadership. But progress needs: 🔬 Freedom to innovate 🧠 Courage for truth 🤝 Strong scholarly networks 🌱 Humility & patience Read more, https://bit.ly/3NJDlK9

📣 NEW Bioethics Forum essay No matter power or privilege, ethics still matters. It grounds us in truth—and remains one of our strongest tools against injustice, harm, and inequity. We may disagree on morality, but we can’t ignore its importance. 📖: https://bit.ly/3PyyOe6

Join us virtually on 4/23 for our Annual Daniel Callahan Program. We will have a lively debate...Should we edit human #embryos to prevent disease—or does it go too far? This timely subject tackles the science, ethics, and future of #GeneEditing ⚖️ 🔗: https://bit.ly/47LdOXR

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️💚🎉🇮🇪 #happystpatricksday #stpatricksday #stpaddys

📣 Applications are still open for the 2026 Hastings Center Summer Bioethics Program! ✨ Highly competitive program 👥 Only 20 students will be selected 🗓 Application deadline: March 23 🔗 https://bit.ly/4cjw7qc

🧬 Genetic Therapies for Rare Diseases: Developing Ethical Regulatory Policies 🔗https://bit.ly/4sIQl1A #Bioethics #GeneTherapy #RareDiseases #GeneticMedicine #HealthPolicy

📣 PET Bionews recently reviewed the first webinar in our Frontiers in the Ethics of Human Reproduction series: “Testing Embryos: How far should we go?” 🧬 🔗 Read the full review: https://bit.ly/4df8IXl #ReproductiveEthics #EmbryoTesting #Genetics #ReproductiveTechnology

📰 JAMA interview with HC senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger on our special report “Living with Dementia” (2025) is featured in a new JAMA piece on the poem “Ambiguous Loss.” 🔗 https://bit.ly/47fwTBt #Dementia #Caregiving #BioethicsForAgingSocieties #HealthHumanities

🌟 There is still time to register for the 10th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference – happening virtually this Thursday and Friday! 👉 Register now/view the full schedule: https://bit.ly/4axd1vl #ReproductiveEthics #Bioethics #HealthcareEthics #VirtualConference

🚨 Hastings Center Report essay, examines the case against Mary Carpenter, who faces criminal charges from #Louisiana and #Texas for mailing abortion pills to patients in states where abortion is illegal. 📖: https://bit.ly/4aRKvF6 #ReproductiveRights #HealthPolicy #abortion

Stay up to date with The Hastings Center for Bioethics by signing up for our weekly e-newsletter!👏📰 You will learn about our latest publications, research projects, special events and more. 🔗 https://bit.ly/40y4SR8 #HastingsCenter #Bioethics #Newsletter

🌟 Join us for the 10th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference – happening virtually on March 12-13, 2026! 👉 Register now/view the full schedule: https://bit.ly/4axd1vl #ReproductiveEthics #Bioethics #HealthcareEthics #VirtualConference