The challenge in professionalizing bioethics is to retain interdisciplinary membership and exchange as an integral part of the profession.

Therapeutic misconception—a false belief that individuals will benefit from participating in research—can bias informed consent. Ethics consultants can help by engaging participants’ and researchers’ understandings of risks and benefits and by asking good questions about the influences of researchers’ enthusiasm.

When an unproven intervention is a nanodrug, a physician’s role is especially difficult due to possibilities of unprecedented harms.

This artwork represents—via a puzzle—physical and emotional experiences of brain deterioration.

How should physicians researching life-sustaining technologies consider their duties to enrolled subjects?

Devices alter heart failure etiology, and specialists must navigate more ethical complexity than ever. How should curricula evolve to help them respond?

Responding to patients violating US health commerce regulations can be critical when they buy and use unproven interventions.

One reason for neglect of women’s health as patients and subjects has been restrictions on uterine transfer of modified human embryos, a boundary that has now been crossed.

The University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) implemented a major curriculum revision to incorporate patient- and family-centered care concepts.

Case-based teaching, longitudinal application, and training in ethical deliberation can better prepare physicians to responsibly prescribe and manage opioids.