At the Becker's 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference, taking place September 14–17 in Chicago, healthcare executives and digital leaders from across the country will come together ...

Many states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 50-year-old constitutional right to the procedure. These laws have ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dr. Anne Lyerly, a professor and OB-GYN, about how hospital ethics boards are being invoked when a patient requires a medical exception to an abortion ban. Let's follow up ...

Frank Stephens has traveled around the world, held multiple jobs and even received a standing ovation from US Congressional representatives after testifying on Capitol Hill. "I have spent my life ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked its Committee on Doctrine to address issues such as transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for a proposed update to the bishops’ “Ethical and ...

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case. You vote on your ...

For most of my 25 years in medical practice, I have been involved in hospital ethics committees. You may not know that ethics committees exist, or that there are ethics consults in hospitals. An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine a frail, 91-year-old patient who is ill and approaching the end of life. When she was brought into the Emergency ...

When Elizabeth Weller’s water broke during the 18th week of her pregnancy, the prognosis was bleak: With almost no amniotic fluid left, the fetus could not survive. If Weller did not terminate ...

Grand Rapids — The mother of a west Michigan teenager is suing Helen DeVos Children's Hospital for officials' decision to require the girl be vaccinated before receiving a kidney transplant. The ...

Many states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 50-year-old constitutional right to the procedure. These laws have ...