Aria Trivedi is a biology major with a minor in biotechnology, and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

A new study highlights key challenges and tensions in research ethics, particularly in light of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, and calls for the adoption of new research ethics ...

A new commentary in the medical journal Pediatrics raises important concerns about the ethics of stopping clinical trials before they are completed, especially when those studies involve children and ...

The core values that anchor responsible scientific research — like honesty in reporting research results and openness in sharing materials — are stable over time, but that isn’t true for the contexts ...

Informed consent facilitation: Implementing structured communication training programs for health care providers to improve their ability to discuss treatment options, prognosis, and goals of care ...

Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

A quasi-experimental study of 114 Iranian nurses found that both role-playing and mobile phone-based ethics education ...