Medical Futility Blog

African Americans still can’t get over the Tuskegee Experiment.   Four decades after the infamous study on syphilis’ impact on black men e...

I recently blogged about two new databases that add transparency to Medicare and Medicaid information.  First, ProPublica launched Nursing H...

The Wisconsin’s Catholic bishops just released the third edition of their pastoral letter on end of life health care decision-making and ad...

HHS is soliciting nominations for a new, non-federal member of the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services. Specif...

In an article forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Medicine , Lindy Willmott, Benjamin White, and Jocelyn Downie examine the law in Austra...

My latest blog post for AJOB's bioethics.net, "Defending Disability Discrimination," is available here .

The World Federation of Right to Die Societies will hold its 20th conference from September 17-21, 2014 in Chicago.   The theme is ...

It appears that the medical futility debate in Brazil looks much like that in the United States.  I just read this article by Karla Cristi...

Philadelphia prosecutors have charged Herbert and Catherine Schaible with 3rd degree murder after their son Brandon died when the parents t...

This summer, World Scientific Publishing will release Iranian physician-bioethicist Alireza Bagheri's new book ,  Medical Futility: A Cr...

The Toronto Star reports on yet another futility dispute (the fifth by their count) at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.  It was recently ...

The Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics has released for public consultation  its "Draft Guide Concerning the Decision-making Proc...

Earlier this week, the Michigan House passed S.B. 165 .  It looks like the bill is now on its way to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.   As I...

Yesterday, at the ATS, Caroline M. Quill, MD, a fellow in Penn's department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care at Penn Medicine, ...