A measure in New York state offers tax credits to living organ donors. That's reignited one of medicine’s most contentious ethical debates: Should we legalize the sale of human organs?

Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

Over the past quarter century, few countries have commanded as much sustained attention from U.S. foreign policy officials as ...

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

Realizing that, with President Trump just turning 79 and completing his second term at 82, he deserves credit for living his diminishing time as a human piñata absorbing constant and often spurious ...

Effective altruism took off in 2011 when Scottish-born philosopher William MacAskill was inspired by a 1972 essay called “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” by Australian bioethicist Peter ...

‘Effective altruism’ isn’t as newfangled as it seems Times have changed since the days of Carnegie and Rockefeller, but much in philanthropy has remained the same ...

Talk of movements makes me nervous. The latest swirling in tech world is “effective altruism.” Elon Musk had a brush with it. Its biggest proponent is crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX ...

Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to vague symptoms like bloating and pelvic pain, making early detection critical for improved survival and treatment outcomes.

Altruism is not a government program. Compelled sacrifice is a very real possibility when the people have granted authority to a representative government, but there is no duty-bound obligation to ...

Effective Altruism Committed the Sin It Was Supposed to Correct The swift downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried brings unnecessary suspicion on a valuable form of philanthropy.

Altruism values for treatments of rare, severe pediatric diseases have not been estimated. This study found the altruism value for a hypothetical new Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to be ...