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Topic: Medical ethics

Used surgical mask thrown on the sand of a beach (Getty Images/nito100)

Lessons from infecting people with COVID

Claudia Lopez Lloreda - Undark
In this photo illustration, Elizabeth Snouffer, whose had type 1 diabetes for most of her life, displays her insulin capsule which she needs to take daily on March 02, 2023 in New York City. (Illustration by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The biohackers who make DIY insulin

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Dead body covered in sheet in hospital (Getty Images/MediaProduction)

The complex ethics of unclaimed bodies

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Care rationing no longer a hypothetical

Paula Schaap
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Pro-life activists demonstrate in front of the the US Supreme Court during the 47th annual March for Life on January 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

The ethically weak case against abortion

Nathan Nobis, Jonathan Dudley
Sandra Rodriguez, 63, receives a COVID-19 vaccination from Yaquelin De La Cruz at the Research Centers of America (RCA) in Hollywood, Florida, on August 13, 2020. - So-called phase three vaccine clinical trials, in which thousands of people take part in the final stages, are gaining traction. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccine studies' ethical conundrum

Sarah Ruth Bates
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-304885p1.html'>Sukharevskyy Dmytro (nevodka)</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

CRISPR, 40 years later

Patricia Stapleton - The Conversation
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How sick patients are left in limbo

Jonel Aleccia - KFF Health News
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In this Nov. 28, 2016 photo, a researcher inserts stem cells into a syringe before doctors inject them into Josue Salinas Salgado's heart during open heart surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

Prominent heart surgeon exposed

Charles Ornstein, Mike Hixenbaugh - ProPublica
(Getty/Cecilie Arcurs)

How do physicians deal with suicides?

Ronald W. Pies - The Conversation
Blood donated in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Harvesting the poor for their blood

Liz Posner - Alternet
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/oonal'>oonal</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

We can, but should we?

Valerie Tarico
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Shkreli lies, people die

Scott Eric Kaufman
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-81922p1.html'>PavleMarjanovic</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

What's a state's duty?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

A last act of love

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-544783p1.html?searchterm=hospital%20bed'> hxdbzxy </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Katie McDonough
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Natasha Lennard
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Debt is destroying my life

Cary Tennis
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Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein - ProPublica
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