Bioethics Articles

The Hispanic mortality paradox helps explain how Hispanics often have better health outcomes and live longer, despite less frequent doctor visits, discussions of health concerns, and a poorer diet. The role that spirituality and religion may play in this paradox requires rethinking how spirituality and health care coexist.

Unhoused individuals face a daily struggle to access necessities like food, clothing, and health care. To ensure unhoused people’s access to health care, we must better address the barriers they face.

Even though clinical trials are essential to advancing scientific knowledge, they need to be conducted ethically. Unfortunately, this is not always the case as seen with ethical misconduct found in a clinical trial with Kaiser of Northern California.

The disparities in contraceptive use among Hispanic adolescents significantly impact unintended pregnancy rates.

America values health care as a privilege rather than a human right, which should be contributed to our country’s deeply entrenched societal philosophy of individualism.

Establishing an ethics-based system for compensating donors can help to increase the supply of tissues and help alleviate pain in injured individuals.

Inadequate knowledge about menopause is prevalent among both medical professionals and the general public, leading to lower levels of care among women.

Clinical support algorithms may prove to work well; however, many academics worry that they can lead to poor health outcomes for certain minorities, especially for the Black population in the United States.

The recent change toward protections that once prevented U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers from entering protected areas like hospitals, has devastating consequences, as seen in the case of Ulises Peña López.

UNOS scoring systems have disproportionately disadvantaged racial minorities and women in receiving organ transplants in the United States.