Bioethics

New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

For 47-year-old Erin Millender, this will likely be her last chance to become a mother. Her husband no longer wants to have a child with her.

Adeline Goss writes about the case of Ray Howell, an Indiana physician who was arrested in 2011, on charges of recklessly prescribing narcotics, but who received a diagnosis, during the criminal proceedings, of a rare neurological condition that left his culpability in doubt.

The United States is reliant on unpaid family caregivers, and millions of adult children are caring for parents who didn’t really care for them.

The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern medicine in the name of God, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor to save their lives?

How ultrasound technology came to govern what counts as a person.

In the depths of the Cold War, scientists from the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. joined forces to answer a still-urgent question: Can mammals reproduce in space?

Thirty-five years ago Dallas—and the country—was gripped by the tragic story of John McClamrock, a high school football player paralyzed during a violent tackle. But after the newspapers moved on, another story was quietly unfolding, one of courage, perseverance, and a mother’s fierce love.