Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - New Events, 126 Years of #NursingEthics, Gene Editing, What I Want Everyone to Know, Collecting Health Data, Prediction Markets: Public Health Threat, Medicine Paradox, Reading Your Thoughts, AI Smells + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

CDC blocks study showing covid shots cut hospital visits after earlier delay. The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision. | The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups.

A good time to donate to SPLC. www.splcenter.org

SPLC charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants | NPR www.npr.org/2026/04/21/g...

California Lawmakers Seek Protections for Patients in ICE Custody - KFF Health News Moving through the California Senate are two bills, informed by KFF Health News reporting, that would strengthen protections for patients brought to health facilities by Immigration and Customs Enforc...

CA lawmakers alarmed by the treatment of people brought to hospitals by federal immigration agents want to strengthen protections for detained patients receiving care at medical facilities, including by making it easier for their families and attorneys to find them. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

Instead of canceling grants en masse, as the NIH did in the first year of this Trump presidency, it is now vetting them before approval with a “computational text analysis tool” that scans for terms including “racism,” “gender” and “vaccination refusal,” according to documents obtained by NYTimes.

Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year

Pace of NIH Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year. The agency has approved far fewer new grants than it did in years past. A renewed effort to screen for disfavored terms and a loss of personnel are contributing. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

Preserving Our Ethical Foundations: The Future of Nursing Is Now Click on the article title to read more.

Preserving Our Ethical Foundations: The Future of Nursing Is Now - By Cynda Hylton Rushton | Journal of Advanced Nursing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ICE’s Smart Glasses Are a Worst-Case Scenario The DHS is reportedly developing its own smart glasses that it plans to couple with biometric databases and facial recognition.

The DHS is reportedly developing its own smart glasses that it plans to couple with biometric databases and facial recognition. gizmodo.com/ices-smart-g...

Civil Rights Group Says It Is Under Investigation by Justice Dept.

Civil Rights Group Says It Is Under Investigation by Justice Dept. The Southern Poverty Law Center - best known for investigating hate groups - has been accused by Republicans of unfairly targeting conservative and Christian organizations. | New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Walking a Tightrope, Psychedelics: Not Ethically Exceptional, Preserving Our Ethical Foundations, Navigating Uncertainty, The Final Day, Ethical Preparedness, Carbon Accounting in Healthcare, Moral Injury in Gaza + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Starting in about 5 minutes - join us online Hopkins.org/shallenberger or in person - Hurd Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Opinion | Rebecca Archer: My Child Died of Measles | The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Join us TODAY, Noon EDT: 32nd Shallenberger Lecture | Allison Pugh, PhD, "Seeing the Other: Valuing our Humanity in the Age of AI" Attend in person or online. Hurd Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital (lunch provided in person). hopkins.org/shallenberger to join via Zoom. mailchi.mp/jhu/y61ihduu...

Generative artificial intelligence-driven chatbots and medical misinformation: an accuracy, referencing and readability audit | BMJ Open bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare | Science - Policy Forum www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Plan To Collect Federal Workers’ Health Data - KFF Health News After KFF Health News reported that the Trump administration is seeking federal workers’ medical records, Democratic lawmakers are insisting that the Office of Personnel Management drop its request.

Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration halt plans to collect sensitive medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. | KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.

US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices theconversation.com/us-governmen...

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network Autonomous agents aren’t just creating their own research — on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they’re chatting about it, too.

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network. Autonomous agents aren’t just creating their own research — on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they’re chatting about it, too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A 126-Year Legacy of Nursing Ethics | Giving to Johns Hopkins "We need to remind nurses that their well-being and integrity are scarce resources, and we have to invest in it so they’re able to be a whole person, but also so they can serve,” Cynda Rushton, PhD, R...

Cynda Rushton Leads in the Field Pioneered by Hopkins Trailblazer: A 126-Year Legacy of Nursing Ethics. giving.jhu.edu/story/cynda-...

Join us May 21, 6:30-8p: Life, Death, and #Bioethics - w Jeff Kahn, Anna Mastroianni & Lauren Arora Hutchinson - celebrating the launch of season 2 of our playing god? podcast. Link for info & free registration to attend in person | Center for Brooklyn History www.bklynlibrary.org/node/820439/...

Monday, April 27, Noon EDT: Justin Bernstein, PhD, "Three Models for Public Input in a Public Health Emergency". Open to all, attend in person, Feinstone Hall, @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social | Berman Insitute #Bioethics Seminar Series - Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has long been a mystery. Unit now. The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. A feature in Nature explores why AI chatbots were telling people the condition was real. #medsky 🧪

Prediction markets as a public health threat: Scientific framing, gambling-like design, and regulatory gaps create risks of a new behavioral addiction and democratic manipulation | Science | Policy Forum www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global #FoodEthics and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Dismantling Climate Policy, Spending on Snacks, Ravaged Topsoil, Affordable Healthcare for Farmers? Municipal Grocery Store, Those Who Feed Us, Palates Unbound, Factory Unions, Turtle Model, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

ICE out here winning hearts and minds... | ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her GI Sweetheart. After Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé’s husband died, an inheritance battle exploded. Her stepson then used his influence to have her arrested, a probate judge said. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

More US Immigration Detention, Less Oversight, and More Deaths When a government detains a person, it assumes a duty of care. That person’s health—and survival—depends on whether the detaining authority provides adequate care, maintains health-promoting condition...

More US Immigration Detention, Less Oversight, and More Deaths | "When a government detains a person, it assumes a duty of care." | JAMA | Editorial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas. The state’s medical board ruled that the doctors’ substandard care led to the deaths and ordered them to complete extra training. | ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/tmb-...

Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human - KFF Health News With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps — with little evidence they work and few regulations.

Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human | KFF Health News / Washington Post kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

North Carolina election board’s GOP majority approves sharing voter data with DHS Voting rights advocates have long warned the SAVE system was not designed for voter list maintenance and can incorrectly flag eligible citizens.

🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina State Board of Elections’s Republican majority voted to move forward with using a federal immigration database to check the state’s voter rolls — an escalation in the board’s ongoing effort to scrutinize voter rolls that could put eligible voters at risk.