#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - Dangers of Cancer Exceptionalism in Pain Medicine, Institutional Obligations for Pragmatic Clinical Trials, Maternal & Neonatal Care in Custody, Narrative-Based Decision-Making, Shared Decision-Making & Clinical Documentation, + More! mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Don’t Settle for Plastic Flowers: New Report on What It Means to Stay Human. By Nancy Berlinger | Hastings Center #Bioethics Forum Essay www.thehastingscenter.org/dont-settle-...

Does clinical documentation reflect how parents and clinicians share decisions about surgery? Angele Kelly, Dalia Mitchell, Anne Links, Mary Catherine Beach, Emily Boss, Elaine Thompson | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Johns Hopkins University and the American research enterprise: The nation’s research universities have traced an indelible path through the American story - By Ronald J. Daniels | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Incoming US science academy chief vows to ‘double down’ on research. New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Universities are relying on AI-detection software to catch cheating. How well do the programs work? Technology companies say that their services can sniff out AI-generated writing, but their tools vary in technique and quality. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From cloning to gene-editing: the enduring legacy of Dolly the sheep. Dolly’s brush with celebrity could hold lessons for current discussions about reproductive technologies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH Announces World’s Largest Integrated Health Database. The All of Us program contains more than half a million people’s genomes, paired with clinical records and wearable tech data. That gives researchers unmatched power to study both diseases and treatments. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/s...

It may be almost impossible to make data centers pay their ‘fair share’ of electricity costs | The Conversation theconversation.com/it-may-be-al...

Decline of PhD Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’. Some of the nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting. The United States Preventive Services Task Force has been stymied under Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

First-ever treatment trial for Ebola Bundibugyo kicks off in the Congo | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

America’s small businesses are giving up on health insurance. Employers and workers confront unaffordable premium hikes, with no relief in sight. www.statnews.com/2026/07/07/s... via @statnews.com

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Laughs, What's Next for Psychedelics, Placebos, Who Owns My Health Data? Better Chatbots Are Harder to Build, Wearable Data, 'Edited' Human Embryos, Manipulating Embryogenesis, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

Clinical trial diversity has gotten caught up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI www.statnews.com/2026/07/06/r... via @statnews.com

Why US measles outbreaks have grown harder to extinguish - The nation is already nearing last year’s record case total, and experts say the virus is forcing doctors to relearn a disease many thought had been consigned to history. | The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors. AI labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

New Charter Unveiled for CDC's Influential Vaccine Committee — Changes to rules governing ACIP could inject more politicization, experts warn. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

John Maa, MD: I Watched My Friend Choose Death. Physician-Assisted Suicide Needs More Guardrails. — And the fundamental question remains of whether doctors should be involved at all. | Medpage Today - Second Opinions www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Narrative-based Decision-making: Co-development of a Graphic Educational Aid for Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Options - Liza Marie Johnson, Ambria Williams, Abagail Cohen et al. including Yoram Unguru | Journal of Sickle Cell Disease academic.oup.com/jscd/article...

Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants. Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When Results Are Not Enough: A Narrative Case Study of Barriers to Informed Decision Making in Prenatal Testing - Madison K. Kilbride, Marielle S. Gross muse.jhu.edu/article/9942...

NIH likely to award fewer grants as it races to spend 2026 budget | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Colossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’ | WIRED www.wired.com/story/coloss...

Synthetic biology researchers think they’ve made a cell. Is it alive? Described in a preprint, ‘SpudCell’ could be a major advance in the field. www.statnews.com/2026/07/01/s... via @statnews.com

Maternal and Neonatal Care in Custody - Bianca Hall, Andrea Knittel, Carolyn Sufrin | Pediatric Clinics www.pediatric.theclinics.com/article/S003...

A Framework of Institutional Obligations for Pragmatic Clinical Trials - Stephanie Morain, Matthew Semler, Jonathan Casey www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup - crime prediction, literary translation, UN's "AI for Good," oversight for smart glasses, and more mailchi.mp/f07836a31a49...

On the Dangers of Cancer Exceptionalism in Pain Medicine - in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal by our Travis Rieder, Vivian Altiery de Jesus, and Yoram Unguru doi.org/10.1353/ken....

#Bioethics Bulletin - this week - Ruth Faden on Public Health on Call, manmade living cells, edited embryos, vulnerable medical records, public health implications of AI data centers, and more mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit this week - storytelling, African-centered global health, body donation, brain organoids, palliative sedation, and more mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

How “America First” Abandoned Global Health: The Case for an African Model - new guest editorial in AJOB co-authored by our Ruth Faden doi.org/10.1080/1526...

ICYMI - Watch Now - "Looking Back and Looking Forward 2026 - Ethics for Lunch Year in Review | Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch: Case Presentation & Discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTT...

Who owns my health data? The geopolitics driving artificial intelligence superpowers is reshaping biomedical datasets, and who has access to them. | Nature Medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Consciousness Illusion, Digital Colonialism, Operating a Humanoid With Your Body, Cheating, Broad School Restrictions, Infinite Workweek, Clinical Impact, Autonomy to Alliance, + More mailchi.mp/5c064eb0e5f6...

‘Edited’ human embryos reveal secrets of our development — and fuel ethical debate. Ethical discussions are urgently needed as genome-editing science advances, some researchers say. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Brain-Computer Interface Trials, Deathbed Visions, Time Perception, AI Taking Over Hospitals, 1 in 3 Use AI for Health Advice, Ruining Skills, NIH Security Rules, Gene Editing Theater Production, Elephant iPSCs, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

Shortage of Chemotherapy Drugs Brings Rationing Fears. Doctors are contending with low supplies and unfilled orders of generic chemotherapy infusions that are central to the treatment of a long list of cancers. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/h...

AI’s growing appetite for power is a public health issue. Here’s a fix. Reliable electricity is a public health necessity. | STAT First Opinion - By Sten H. Vermund and Patricia J. Kissinger www.statnews.com/2026/06/18/a... via @statnews.com

Opinion | We Need to Keep Funding Weird Science - The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack. By Jeff Coller | New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability. Identification risks are more severe for underrepresented groups in the training data — plus, evidence that the Universe is more uneven than assumed. | Nature Podcast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Services Sold to Boost IVF Odds Backed by Little Evidence, Study Finds. Some patients spend thousands of dollars on these extra ‘add-on’ procedures during fertility treatment. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

The Doctor, the Patient and … the Podcaster? The dynamic in the exam room is changing as more people show up ready to talk about what they’ve heard on podcasts. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/w...

The Wearable Data Your Doctor Actually Wants. Wearables can offer rough information about a person’s health, experts say, but only some metrics are medically useful. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/w...

Medical students are using a popular research tool to pump out misleading studies. Critics say TriNetX’s easy analyses of electronic medical records fuel quick-and-dirty publications from inexperienced authors. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Even in Blue States, Hospitals Have Continued To Drop Gender-Affirming Care for Youths - KFF Health News/NPR kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

The Ebola Outbreak’s Central Mystery: Where Did This Virus Come From? Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they have yet to identify the species. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/s...

The lack of pregnancy-specific data for COVID vaccines complicated regulatory and public health decision-making. @bermaninstitute.bsky.social's Ruth Faden discusses the ethics of testing new interventions in pregnant people. 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/the-ethics-o...