Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

09/03/2026

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Bots Would Like a Word with You, Data Center Backlash, The Singularity, 'A Friend I Can Trust', Bland New World, Ethics of Prompting, Containing , Exaggerated Risks, Realistic Expectations, and Genuine Challenges, + More

09/03/2026

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Brain Stimulation & Women's Health, Brain Wearable Can Tell if You're Locked In, What's Left for Doctors? AI & Reproducibility, Robot Olympics, Oprimized Offspring? Gene-Edited 'Supermales', Expiration of Broad Consent? + More

09/02/2026

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - Harm Reduction, BI at , Vision, Parental Rights? Fighting Back, Homogenizing Culture, Costs, Gene-Editing Dogs, Communicating Uncertainty, Philosophy & Science, + More

09/01/2026

in the Academic Lit - This Week - Physician Obligation & Demandingness, Meet People Where They Are, EMTALA, Moral Distress, ABCDE of Deception, Public Perceptions of Polygenic Testing, Evolving Oversight, Nanocarriers for Oncology, + More

September 1, 2026 Antibiotic Course Length, Physician Obligation, and Demandingness, American Journal of Bioethics Authors: Travis Rieder, Chelsea Modlin Tess Johnson and colleagues (2026) make an important argument in their target article: norms of antibiotic prescribing are, and should be, chang...

09/01/2026

Why Millions of Children Lack Access to Eye Exams- with comments from our Megan Collins, MD, MPH

Learn why many children miss vision screenings and eye exams, the barriers families may face and how programs are expanding access to eye care.

09/01/2026

Meeting People Where They Are: Strategies for Improving Rural Representation in Clinical Research through Pragmatic Clinical Trials - Travis Lovejoy, Natassja Pal, Joseph Ali et al. | 2026, The Journal of Rural Health

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09/01/2026

New Baltimore overdose strategy centers on harm reduction | “You deserve healthcare — and harm reduction is healthcare — because you are a human being,” Travis Rieder said. | Baltimore Sun/Hanford Sentinel |

BALTIMORE — Baltimore is expanding its use of controversial harm reduction strategies as the city tries to reduce overdose deaths, especially those tied to opioids. Mayor Brandon Scott on Monday

08/31/2026

US Public School Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review - Roberto Henry, Megan E. Collins, Katherine A. Connor, Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Tara Kirk Sell | Health Security, 2026

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the sudden closure of schools and a transition to remote learning across the United States. The suspension of in-person education n...

08/31/2026

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act: Clinical Practice and Ethical Considerations | Maneesha Sakhuja, Caleb Ward, Vanessa Madrigal, Joseph Shapiro | Pediatric Emergency Care

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), enacted in 1986, established the legal foundation for access to emergency medical care...

08/28/2026

Global and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Depleted Services, Soda Bans, Bagged Salad Vulnerabilities, Lactose Intolerance, Beef, Floods, Drought Risk, Power Representation, + More

The Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International studies, addresses critical global issues of under- and over-nutrition and diet-related diseases, poverty, inequity ...