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“Who am I?”: The ethics of sperm and egg donation
Picture your parents in your mind. Maybe that’s easy for you to do. But maybe it’s not. Maybe the people that raised you are not the people you’re genetically related to. Maybe you think about two kinds of parents: your social parents and…
No vax, no kidney: What are the bioethics behind UCHealth's decision?
Clinical Ethicist Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C comments on maximizing benefits and minimizing harm in transplant ethics.
How a U of M Extension program is guiding community-based addiction recovery efforts in Greater Minnesota
Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, PAT, AE-C, is a leader of the initiative.
Twin Cities patients must travel for monoclonal antibodies COVID-19 treatment
JP Leider, PhD comments on privilege and fairness regarding access to the increasingly in-demand treatment.
Thousands of COVID-19 doses wasted daily as Wisconsinites don't get vaccinated
Dr. Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH comments on the cause of the waste of vaccinations as the demand declines.
FDA panel to discuss COVID booster shots, experts split on when to give them out
Dr. Jennifer Needle MD, MPH comments on the confusing information around COVID-19 booster shots.
MDH announces new app to provide proof of vaccine
Dr. Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH describes the difference between vaccine passports and MDH's new vaccine report app.
Pandemic Ethics: How we think about the Rule of Rescue
As a public health researcher, I am deeply invested in promoting and protecting equity. In disaster response, operationalizing those commitments is highly complex.
New Article: COVID-19 Mortality At The Neighborhood Level: Racial And Ethnic Inequalities Deepened In Minnesota In 2020
JP Leider, PhD, along with his colleagues, used death certificate data to characterize the association of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage with pre-2020 mortality, COVID-19 mortality, and 2020 excess mortality in the state of…
Dr. Justin Penny joins the Clinical Ethics team!
The Center for Bioethics welcomes Dr. Justin Penny as a new member of our Clinical Ethics team. Dr. Penny joins the team part-time to provide clinical ethics services for the M Health Fairview System.