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In the U.S., about half of all decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment for nursing home residences and three quarters of decisions for hospitalized patients with life-threatening illnesses involve patients who are [...]

Introduction Large-scale genome and exome sequencing is rapidly moving from research investigation into clinical care. When cancer patients fail to respond to conventional treatment, sequencing can suggest new molecular targets [...]

Like biotechnology before it, nanotechnology is beginning to provoke opposition from environmentalists concerned about the ethics of the development and application of nanotechnologies. Given the lack of data on environmental [...]

Clinical ethics, like the broader field of bioethics from which it emerged, is at a critical crossroads in its development, with conflicting paths ahead. It can either claim its distinctive [...]

The first meeting of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research was initiated by the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and sponsored by the World [...]