Public Opinion on Use of Race in Clinical Algorithms - James Diao, Rajiv Movva, Lingwei Cheng, Kowe Kadoma, Aashna Shah, Neil Powe, Kadija Ferryman, Arjun Manrai, Emma Pierson | JAMA Internal Medicine jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Researchers have a moral obligation to push back when their studies are twisted to promote false health claims. Studies give a gloss of authenticity to bogus ideas. Researchers must fight back. | First Opinion by John Gregory www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/r... via @statnews.com

Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves: In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/h...

In a First, a Wheelchair User Joins a Short Flight to Space - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

A simple policy corrected pervasive gender imbalance in Ph.D. awards at Dutch university. Eindhoven University of Technology’s success sets example for other institutions to follow, researchers say. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

America’s Seniors Are Overmedicated. One in six seniors enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time, Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data finds. | WSJ www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Health insurance is less affordable as Obamacare offerings shrink - The end of covid-era subsidies is placing intense economic pressure on insurers and consumers in some ACA markets. | The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under threat - The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case. | The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Building Fair and Trustworthy Biomedical AI: A Tool for Identifying Key Decision Points - By Nicole Foti, Janet K. Shim, Caitlin McMahon, and Sandra Soo-Jin Lee | Biocomputing 2026 www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/...

Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as US Patients Wait for Organs. International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than US patients. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Millions of soon-to-be uninsured Americans are looking for a ‘plan B’ | Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Medical Debt is Bad, But Hospitals Make It So Much Worse - Petrie-Flom Center petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/19/m...

Fee-based primary care is rapidly rising in U.S., hastening doctor shortages for public | Hub hub.jhu.edu/2025/12/18/c...

Global #FoodEthics & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Summer of Starvation, Man-Made Hunger Crisis, Antibiotics-in-Meat Problem, Verification, Resilience, Bird Flu Risk, 'Not Working', Is Food Medicine? + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

ICYMI - Watch Now! "When Faith and Facts Collide: Navigating Hope and Denial at the End of Life" - Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch: Case Presentation & Discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HIc...

How Dr. Noc Made Science Work on TikTok - Morgan McSweeney’s TikTok crusade against White House health policies has made him a star. It’s not a job he ever wanted. | The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/w...

CDC funds controversial and ethically problematic hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns. Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Lawmakers vow to improve care for pregnant women in jails: with comments from our Carolyn Sufrin, MD. | NBC News www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | 2000 Year-Old Debate, Preempting State AI Laws, Can Machines Suffer? AI Doomers Undeterred, One Chatbot Per Child, AI-Generated Mugshots, Is Faster Better? + More mailchi.mp/5e0170478ebe...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Mini Brains - Big Questions, Teen Mind Mysteries, Bionic Hands, AI Peer Review, Will AI Kill Science? Supervision, Gene Therapy Death, Organ Preservation, Gene-Drive-Capable Mosquitoes, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

How Trump administration science cuts muffled one NIH institute. Dismantling of communications teams muffles public education efforts | STAT - American Science, Shattered www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

Joshua S. Weitz: What I’ve learned by mapping the impacts of NIH cuts. The effects have been widespread but could have been worse — and may yet be. | STAT First Opinion www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n... via @statnews.com

CDC Adopts Contentious Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation — Universal birth dose dropped, despite warnings from physicians, medical groups www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

Finding Common Ground to Reduce Gun Violence. by Robert A. Pearlman and David P. Glickman | The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum Essay www.thehastingscenter.org/finding-comm...

The FDA Patent History of Asthma Inhalers - Petrie-Flom Center petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/12/18/t...

Trump Moves to End Gender-Related Care for Minors, Threatening Hospitals That Offer It. Proposed new rules would punish the hospitals by pulling all federal financing. Advocates say lawsuits will follow. | NY Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/h...

American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

N.Y. Governor Will Sign Right-to-Die Bill for the Terminally Ill www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/n...

Ex-Harvard Medical Morgue Manager Who Sold Body Parts Gets 8-Year Sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Genes don’t explain what made humans different. Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Max Barnhart: For a vaccine trial, I volunteered to be infected with dengue fever | Goats and Soda : NPR www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Calls for Applications/Abstracts, The Language of Serious Illness, Look to the States, Reviewer Hack, AI Peer Review Use, No One Wants to Make It, Antidepressants in Pregnancy, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Former Neuralink Exec Launches Organ Preservation Effort. Science Corporation, founded by former Neuralink president Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/a-brai...

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind. ‘A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there’ | STAT - American Science, Shattered www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r... via @statnews.com

Fired NIH institute head sues Trump administration. Jeanne Marrazzo says she lost her job because she spoke out against risky public-health policies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Is bird flu the next pandemic? The science so far. Key mutations and animal spread could raise the risk to humans. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump’s second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changes theconversation.com/trumps-secon...

Unpaid caregiving work can feel small and personal, but that doesn’t take away its ethical value theconversation.com/unpaid-careg...

ICYMI, Watch Now! Justin Clapp, PhD, "Values and Preferences: Examining the Language of Serious Illness and End of Life" | Berman Institute #Bioethics Seminar Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQc...

Save the Date, March 9, 2026, 3pm ET: A Symposium to Honor the Life, Scholarship, and Impact of Carlton Haywood, Jr., PhD - w Keynote Speaker: Vence L. Bonham, Jr., PhD. Open to all, Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/registra...

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Evidence-Based Treatment, Genetic Counselors' Perspectives and Experiences, Bioethics for a Burning Planet, Diversity, Polarization, Reason, Coping with Rejection, AI & Doctor-Patient Relationship, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Look to the States to Lead on Public Health — We cannot wait for the next election or hope that federal policy changes. By Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH, and David C. Perlman, MD www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Johns Hopkins Data Science & AI Institute welcomes postdoctoral fellowship applications, seeking disciplinarily diverse scholars to advance foundational methods. Areas include science, health, medicine, humanities, engineering, policy, governance, democracy, ethics. Info: apply.interfolio.com/179059

Hack reveals reviewer identities for huge AI conference | Science. Software bug leads to exposure of peer-review records for 10,000 papers. | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

TODAY, Noon EST: Ethics for Lunch: Case Presentation & Discussion, "When Faith and Facts Collide: Navigating Hope and Denial at the End of Life" Join us in person. Open to all, lunch provided. @hopkinsnursing.bsky.social Room N431. Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/z6pu34uy...

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance. Policies should reflect the ‘new reality’ of researchers’ increasing reliance on tools that can summarize manuscripts and draft reports. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem: No one wants to make it. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnancy. But Doctors Call Them a Lifeline. - KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

A Powerful New Drug Is Creating a ‘Withdrawal Crisis’ in Philadelphia. Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for life-threatening withdrawal. It is spreading to other cities. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/h...

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth theconversation.com/how-the-nih-...