AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

An emerging medical ethics issue is whether to delay posting pathology reports to electronic health records (EHR) to allow clinicians time to follow up.

Law doesn’t always adequately address unauthorized uses of individuals’ DNA. Ethics can help establish legal privacy protections that work.

While next-generation genome-sequencing technology has great potential to aid cancer research, ethical challenges concerning privacy and confidentiality and the ownership of inventions remain.

A medical school project in which students' genetic information is the subject of study raises many ethical questions.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinion on disclosure of patients’ genetic test results.

Research is often conducted without the knowledge or consent of those whose tissues are banked and poses possible harms to social groups if information about a few members is unscientifically applied to all.