Many states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 50-year-old constitutional right to the procedure. These laws have ...

Generally, it has a negative connotation since it is commonly associated with an investigation initiated by the occurrence of an adverse event. While many times this may be the case, proactive ...

Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the course of her career as a maternal-fetal medicine doctor that some patients are comfortable with the option, and others would ...

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The moral code of medicine originates in the fact of human illness and in the act of a professional. As a moral enterprise, medicine is grounded in a covenant of trust. The classic clinical encounter ...

A U.S. Senate Committee has unanimously passed a bill that aims to bolster rural hospitals’ cybersecurity workforce. The Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, which is supported by the ...

Ethics have been part of medical practice throughout history, with principles like those in the Hippocratic oath guiding decision-making since the 5th century B.C.E. Specialized hospital ethics ...

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of federal protection for abortion, some states began enforcing strict abortion bans while others became new havens for the ...