‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics

Genes capable of creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs have been detected in the UK’s largest lake, which supplies drinking water to about 40% of Northern Ireland (Guardian)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#AntibioticResistance #AntibioticStewardship #Bioethics

🧬 Genetic Therapies for Rare Diseases: Developing Ethical Regulatory Policies

🔗https://bit.ly/4sIQl1A

#Bioethics #GeneTherapy #RareDiseases #GeneticMedicine #HealthPolicy

When ICE Brings You the Patient … Hospitals Must Stop Victimizing Forensic Patients Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2026)

Hospitals are failing patients in #ICE custody due to their long-standing ethical failure in dealing with all "forensic patients". The current crisis provides an opportunity to rethink forensic patient policies to serve all patients better. #healthcare #immigration #bioethics doi.org/10.1080/1526...

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"Organ procurement organizations should develop policy regarding surrogate consent for normothermic regional perfusion," by Murphy et al
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#OrganDonation #Transplantation #OrganProcurement #Bioethics

Re-imagining Miller's Pyramid India's 700+ medical colleges are producing doctors for a world that no longer exists. It is time to bury a 35-year-old framework and replace it with one that puts AI as the accountable conscience.

India has the scale, the urgency, the digital infrastructure ambition, and the moral stakes to build this framework first, and to build it right.
Read and opine open.substack.com/pub/vikkypae...
#meded #medsky #bioethics

Resuming Transmission The past several months have been unusually full.

I'm back to posting at Dispatches from the Blood-Brain Barrier! #philosophy #psychiatry #bioethics

Sophie Goldsmith reflects on Professor John Evans’ new book, which explores US public opinion about human brain organoids and neural chimaeras. Read in BioNews: www.progress.org.uk/book-review-...

#BrainOrganoids #Brain #Science #Ethics #bioethics #NeuralChimaeras #Chimaeras

Applied Ethics & Policy Master's Program - Duke University Science & Society Preparing leaders to navigate the complex ethical and policy landscape of cutting-edge science and emerging technologies.

Our regular admission deadline is coming up on March 16th. Learn more about Duke's Master of Arts in Applied Ethics and Policy and how you can advance scientific and technological innovation for the benefit of humanity!
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#techethics #bioethics #techpolicy

If what makes a philosophical project “critical theory” is consistency with “praxis” (dare I say “non-academic”?), then is #Bioethics a good candidate? #PhilSky

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In parallel, new technologies, from AI-driven analyses to human brain organoids, are allowing scientists to investigate biological questions about language itself without subjecting animals to invasive experimentation.

#AnimalRights #Bioethics #BehCog #PhilMind #ConSci #prattle💬

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Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin | This Week - Medical Aid in Dying, Crowdfunding, Age of Animal Experiments, Maternity Care Deserts, Ethics Weaponized, 'Shared Decisionmaking', Knowing More = Less Ethical, GM Pig Liver, Work Left Undone, + Much More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care.

ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... #AI #AIhealth #TechEthics #Bioethics

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Pregnancy, Incarceration & Permanent Contraception Requests, Life After Death, Pain Management, Adolescent Involvement, Public Communication of Neuroscience & Neurotechnology, Telesurgery Liability, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

We keep telling families “it’s your choice,” then watch them drown in guilt, fear, and impossible decisions. That isn’t autonomy. It’s abandonment dressed up as respect.

#PalliativeCare #SeriousIllness #EOL #Ethics #HealthEquity #Palliative #Bioethics #MedEd #HAPC

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Pregnancy, Incarceration & Permanent Contraception Requests, Life After Death, Pain Management, Adolescent Involvement, Public Communication of Neuroscience & Neurotechnology, Telesurgery Liability, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Opinion: In the MAID debates, the patient’s voice must take precedence As Canada’s medical assistance in dying regime is expanded, those who want it shouldn’t be silenced

"The state should ... respect patient choice in how they live and how they die." ✔️
By @picardonhealth.bsky.social in @theglobeandmail.com ✔️
#bioethics #healthcare #medicine
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Tomorrow: Join the Conversation on Solidarity in Global Health

What does solidarity actually look like in global health practice?

Add your voice to this timely discussion, and register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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My article on Danish organ donation legislation has just been published in Transplantation. It describes the new Danish system and briefly compares it with the active opt-out models used in England and the Netherlands.
#Organdonation #Transplantation #Bioethics

🌟 There is still time to register for the 10th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference – happening virtually this Thursday and Friday!

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Il Valore del Terreno: perché l'eccellenza bio parte dal nutrimento delle radici "Nutrire le radici bio: scopri perché l'eccellenza parte dal terreno. Guida alla bellezza consapevole e al nutrimento biologico di Primavera."

Online ora: Il Valore del Terreno - Analisi dell'integrità biologica e dell'eccellenza delle radici. Inauguriamo il nuovo post della branca Bio con un focus sulla qualità della filiera.
🔗 negliocchidiluna.blogspot.com/2026/03/il-v... #BioEthics #Sustainability #Blogging #Biology #NatureFirst

In Sickness, These Are Profiles in Courage As I am sure readers know, Ben Sasse is dying from pancreatic cancer. But that doesn’t mean he is through. Source

#Bioethics #Faith #& #Science #Apostle #Paul #Chris #Stirewalt #Christianity #Conan #O’Brien

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What Can We Ask of Hospitals? Conceptual Foundations for an Ethics of Healthcare Organizations From aggressive billing practices to neglectful or discriminatory care, news stories about the misconduct of healthcare organizations abound. Yet there has been limited ethical scrutiny of hospital...

🚨our new article on the need for a more robust ethics of healthcare organizations is out now in the american journal of bioethics🚨 #bioethics #healthcare #institutions #responsibility

Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review
07 Mar 2026 Issue 835
centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.net
#vaccines #immunization #globalhealth #bioethics #vaccineequity #zerodosechildren
Center for Vaccine Ethics & Policy –
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Das Buch-Cover von »The Rediscovery of Bioethics« auf türkisfarbenem Hintergrund.

What will the future of bioethics look like amid challenges posed by biotechnologies and ecological crises? Key insights from the discpline, marking 25 years of DRZE. 

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7892-5/

#Bioethics #Biotechnology #GenomeEditing #Medicine #Agriculture #Philosophy

Tomorrow, 100 ppl from the UK will join a Citizens’ Summit to discuss: should the UK revisit the 14-day limit on human embryo research? We’re working with @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social, @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social, @sciencewise.bsky.social & @nationalvoices.bsky.social
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Excellent paper on the use of agentic AI for biomedical research by @moorejh.bsky.social & colleagues

#bioethics

For many, solidarity begins in moments of shared struggle.

Stories like this remind us that solidarity is not abstract.

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#WomensDay2026 #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics

🌟 Join us for the 10th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference – happening virtually on March 12-13, 2026!

👉 Register now/view the full schedule: https://bit.ly/4axd1vl

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