Bioethics

The six-month sobriety rule for liver transplants lacks robust evidence. Examining where medicine ends and moral judgment begins in transplant decisions.

The formula determining liver transplant priority appears mathematically neutral, yet each variable encodes invisible ethical judgments about who deserves survival.

COVID ventilator protocols prioritized the young using QALY math. But does maximizing life-years saved encode ageism into medicine? The bioethical reckoning.

Your zip code could determine whether you live or die. The shocking geography of organ transplant access in America—and what bioethics demands we do about it.

First come, first served sounds fair in organ allocation. But access to the waiting list itself depends on wealth, geography, and privilege. The race is rigged.