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Bioethics
Preventive measures
Published Feb 6, 2014
Health experts offer recommendations to combat shortages of lifesaving drugs
Medicine alternative
Surgery for sale?
Published Jan 16, 2014 Video
Hopkins bioethicist weighs in on a new website that allows patients to solicit bids for medical care
Medical ethics
A right to die?
Published Jan 9, 2014
Professor Cynda Rushton considers complex case of pregnant woman forced to stay on life support / CNN
Ethics of Catholic health care directives
Published Dec 17, 2013
ACLU claims policies led to 'negligent' patient care in Michigan case / ABC News
Medical ethics
Crowdfunding conundrum
Published Dec 5, 2013
Exploring the ethics of a gender reassignment surgery paid for by an online fundraising appeal
Lacks family reaches deal on use of genetic material
Published Aug 8, 2013
Cells collected from Johns Hopkins patient in 1951 paved way for medical advances including polio vaccine, chemotherapy, in vitro fertilization
Flu review
Published Winter 2012
Publishing scientific research might prevent the next pandemic, but critical information could fall into the wrong hands / Johns Hopkins Magazine
JHU creates joint professorship in nursing, bioethics
Published Nov 2012
Cynda Hylton Rushton, who has been with university for more than 20 years, named inaugural Bunting professor of clinical ethics / Gazette
Advancing ethics in medicine
Published July 16, 2012
Jeremy Sugarman, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine, developed a model of how to approach ethical decision making in the arena of health care and medical science, a model that he expanded as he became one of the preeminent bioethicists in the world.