Bioethics Forum EssayIs it Time to Regulate the Sale of Sugar to Minors?In “Tackling Obesity and Disease: The Culprit Is Sugar; the Response is Legal Regulation,” published in the Hastings Center Report, Lawrence O. Gostin describes four coordinated interventions that have been...Read Is it Time to Regulate the Sale of Sugar to Minors?Bioethics Forum EssayShould Doctors Treat Family Members?Many privileges come with having a doctor in the family: appointments squeezed into busy schedules as personal favors, a conspicuous lack of financial strain, an ability to comprehend both treatment...Read Should Doctors Treat Family Members?Bioethics Forum EssayPalliative Care vs. Cancer ResearchThe death of former first lady Barbara Bush at age 92 was noteworthy in many ways. She was by all accounts smart, sharp and funny, and a fine, helpful wife...Read Palliative Care vs. Cancer ResearchBioethics Forum EssayEvaluating Recommendations to Increase Organ DonationWhile the U.S. system of organ donation and transplantation is in a state of growth for the fifth year in a row, the call for new strategies to accelerate that...Read Evaluating Recommendations to Increase Organ DonationBioethics Forum EssayFentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?In February, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) published a report that revealed the unsettling relationship between opioid manufacturers and pain advocacy groups. Focusing on five opioid manufacturers, Purdue, Janssen, Depomed, Insys,...Read Fentanyl at Your Door: Who are Pain Groups Advocating For?Bioethics Forum EssayOrgan Donation and Transplantation in the U.S.: 50 Years of Success, Strategies for ImprovementThe Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, a landmark law adopted 50 years ago this summer, has provided a sound and stable legal platform on which to base an effective nationwide organ...Read Organ Donation and Transplantation in the U.S.: 50 Years of Success, Strategies for ImprovementBioethics Forum Essay“No one was listening to us.” Lessons from the Jahi McMath Case“It was like he thought we were dirt.” This is how Jahi McMath’s grandmother, Sandra, describes having been treated by one of the doctors at the Oakland’s Children Hospital ICU....Read “No one was listening to us.” Lessons from the Jahi McMath CaseBioethics Forum EssayBeing Poor Is a Full-Time JobAn article in the Hastings Center Report asks whether it is ethical to ration health care by inconvenience and red tape. In other words, given that all societies must ration...Read Being Poor Is a Full-Time JobBioethics Forum EssayLena Dunham’s Lesson for DoctorsIn a recent essay in Vogue the actress, writer, and director Lena Dunham described her decision to have a hysterectomy at age 31 after a decade of unsuccessful attempts to...Read Lena Dunham’s Lesson for DoctorsBioethics Forum EssayReproductive Freedom: The More Things Change . . .An opinion piece in the New York Times, “Doctors Fail Women Who Don’t Want Children,” serves as a striking reminder that the more things seem to change, the more they...Read Reproductive Freedom: The More Things Change . . .