American Enterprise Institute (AEI) president Arthur C. Brooks has announced that AEI scholar Leon R. Kass, M.D., is the recipient of AEI’s 2012 Irving Kristol Award. Dr. Kass will receive the award and deliver the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

Despite efforts to exploit a gender gap in support for President Obama's health care law, it turns out some moms are raising their concerns over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with Cafe Mom, the online meeting place for moms

What is urgently needed at the bedside of patients is not self-styled professional ethicists, but ethical doctors.

A review of Michael L. Gross's Bioethics and Armed Conflict.

Leon Kass of AEI and University of Chicago delivered the February Bradley Lecture.

In our new world of biotechnology, gathering powers to intervene in human bodies and minds raise profound challenges to the meaning of our humanity. Crucial to meeting those challenges is a robust notion of human dignity—the special...

This year, more than 100,000 Americans will be diagnosed with a potentially deadly blood disease. Among those in need of lifesaving, blood-producing marrow cells, thousands will die because it is so difficult to find a nearly perfect genetic match and marrow donors are in short supply.

Material incentives, from tax credits...

For grant-winners whose studies will involve human volunteers, another big hurdle remains: federal ethics regulations.