For National Health Ethics Week (NHEW), I’m writing some posts about medical research – for patients. I’ll try to write one post each day, until NHEW ends on March 8. I work in bioethics, also called biomedical or healthcare ethics, but am doing this in Read More …

For National Health Ethics Week (NHEW), I’m writing some posts about healthcare and medical research – for patients. I’ll try to write one post each day, until NHEW ends on March 8. I work in bioethics, also called healthcare ethics, but am doing this in Read More …

This week is Canada’s first-ever “National Health Ethics Week” (NHEW). Read the abbreviation out loud – it even sounds like “new”! NHEW runs from March 2 to March 8, 2014.  There will be organizations joining in from all across the country. Clinics, hospitals, universities, and Read More …

Guess what’s happening in bioethics, from March 2 through 8… It’s the first-ever National Health Ethics Week in in Canada! It’s being coordinated jointly by the Canadian Bioethics Society (CBS) – of which I’m a member – and the Nova Scotia Heath Ethics Network (NSHEN). Read More …