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Congratulations to Dr. Stuart Rennie, who has been elected as of the 2024 fellows for the Hastings Center!  Hastings Center fellows are a group of about 300 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. Click...

Jill A. Fisher and Maral Erol are co-authors, with colleague Edwin H. Kim, on a new article in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The researchers interviewed providers in community practice or academic medical centers. They asked providers about “their perceptions of the risks and benefits of current and future FA treatment options,” with...

Since the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 18 states have put functional abortion bans in place. New research fills a gap in understanding impacts on physicians after these bans. Mara Buchbinder, Kavita S. Arora and colleagues identify sources of moral distress impacting...

In the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Dr. Jon Oberlander tackles these policy issues in a new Perspective piece titled “Health Care Reform and the 2024 U.S. Elections — Low Visibility, High Stakes.” Oberlander is a professor and chair in UNC’s Department of Social Medicine and a professor of...

Jonathan Oberlander, Chair and Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy & Management, is editor of a new special issue in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the United States. In the lead essay, Oberlander argues that partisan divisions between Democrats and...

As Director of the Center for Bioethics at UNC, Eric Juengst, PhD has serious ethical questions to consider every day. But when he leaves this office, he lets his mind relax with some serious fun making armor out of found objects.