In the weeks following the release of the first report from Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann, further information about the report’s ...

The commission has been charged with advising the president on the bioethical issues that emerge with the continuing developments in biomedicine. According to a White House press release, the ...

Hardly a week seems to pass without a major news story about another controversy in bioethics: A scientist in China uses CRISPR to produce genetically-edited twins, an Italian surgeon recruits a ...

Today the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) reported that the federal government has both a prudential and a moral responsibility to actively ...

President Trump’s daily press conferences for his coronavirus task force have become one of the centerpieces of commentary on the crisis. Critics have bashed his optimistic riffs on potential cures or ...

Philadelphia bioethics meeting tackles implanted memories and other thorny issues [Newsworks] “On Monday, the commission is closing the books on a year’s work on ‘incidental findings.’ It will present ...

Gutmann bridges University, D.C.. “I am grateful that these impressive individuals have chosen to dedicate their talents to serving the American people at this important time for our country,” Obama ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - President Obama has created the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to advise him on issues in the emerging field of biomedicine and related areas of science ...

Science and ethics are inextricably linked, and it is sometimes unclear whether science can be considered friend or foe. Despite a history riddled with examples of destruction at the hands of ...

Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer, President of Human Life International has called for Americans to be watchful of President Obama's appointments to the new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical ...

"Incidental findings"--or test results you weren't looking for--are a daily occurrence in modern medicine, often forcing physicians to order unnecessary yet expensive and patient-stressing follow-up ...

Stephen L. Hauser, MD, the Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at UCSF, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the Presidential Commission for ...