(Garrison, NY)  As government support for personalized medicine grows, a consumer advocate, a patient, and bioethicists explore ethical controversies. Direct-to-consumer genetic tests, privacy, targeted cancer therapies, and Henrietta Lacks are...

(Garrison, NY) The Hastings Center has relaunched the Health Care Cost Monitor  and expanded its scope. Originally created to fill a void by focusing on health care costs as a component of...

Reproductive technologies, sometimes dubbed “reprogenetics” because they stand at the intersection of assisted reproduction and genetics, can both help people have children and give them greater choice over the kind...

Personalized medicine—the customization of medical treatment to an individual’s genetic profile—aims to both improve outcomes and control costs. But there are many ethical hurdles, ranging from the regulation of direct-to-consumer...

Hastings Center Fellows are an elected group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences...