New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.

Would you be willing to play games to get out of debt? Would you sell your organs?

Many people facing the end of their life receive treatments that ultimately have no benefit. A team of researchers set out to find out why.

Early scientific results on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) show promise, but are they enough to support a multi-billion-dollar industry?

Intended to protect consumers from unscrupulous quackery, a nineteenth-century ban on medical advertising proved to be a double-edged sword.

New progress in stem-cell research raises some thorny ethical questions.

Some people born in able bodies feel as if they were meant to have disabilities. How should the medical community be responding?

Eighty-seven-year-old Narayan Lavate, and his wife, Iravati, 78, say they are “leading unproductive and obsolete lives.”

Two experts in bioethics have curated a reading list of over 20 JSTOR sources on selected issues like: gene-editing, research and treatment, reproduction, disability, genetics, genealogy and race.

Our Friday Reads: a new book by Belle Boggs called The Art of Waiting.