(RNS) — Like every other Catholic and people of other faiths around the world, I’ve been following the speculation on who will be the next pope, but I’ll admit to doing so with some sadness at how ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci and Christine Grady have been selected to give the keynote speech at the Macalester Class of 2026 Commencement.  Fauci, an influential American physician and scientist, received his ...

Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony Fauci, was among the health bureaucrats who received a layoff notice on Tuesday, ...

OXFORD, England — Professor Luke Gormally, who died April 30 at the age of 83, was a towering figure who was respected and admired for his personal integrity, courage and tireless defense of life at a ...

When the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine announced that it had created human embryos specifically for research purposes, it talked up the a priori endorsement of three separate panels of ...

Today is World AIDS day – and there’s a lot of rhetoric flying around about progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS, especially in overcoming fear and bigotry. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Why Are We Injecting $14 Billion into Iran’s War Effort . . . Against Us? Christopher Caldwell vs. President Trump Audio By Carbonatix The fear of suffering (or deprivation of personal desires) is ...

The past few decades have seen the ascendancy of a new class of science gadfly-the professional bioethicist. During this time, researchers have sometimes found themselves in a warring stance with ...

Dr. Doug Diekema is a pediatric emergency department physician, bioethicist, and professor. He works at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he is Co-Director of Education for the Treuman Katz Center for ...

Advocates call it “right to die” or “medical aid in dying.” Opponents call it “assisted suicide.” These differences in language highlight two different views of a bill awaiting Governor Pritzker’s ...

Funny and gregarious. Brilliant and big-hearted. Courageous and determined. That is how friends and family described the late Brooke Ellison, a 45-year-old Stony Brook University bioethicist and stem ...