What are red flag laws? Could they have prevented the killing at Club Q?

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.

According to three scholars, it's asking a lot for health care professionals to be completely selfless.

Genome recoding could offer new modes of virus resistance, but the technology raises serious ethical concerns.

The containment of COVID-19 raises pressing questions related to the freedom of scientific information, civil liberties, and human rights, one scholar explains.

The first Black woman physician served communities in the South after the Civil War but was buried in an anonymous grave. That will likely change.

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

Pliny the Elder remarked: “Such is the condition of humanity, and so uncertain is men’s judgment, that they cannot determine even death itself.”

Federal funding for medical research has declined, leading academics to seek alternative funding sources, sometimes from drug companies.

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.