The study aims at considering the ethical and legal regulation of high technology in the sphere of medicine and identifying problems and determine developmental prospects. The methodological basis was the theory of cognition. To overcome problems in this area, the following algorithm of actions is proposed: to adopt ethical norms in the field of science and certain high-tech areas of professional activity; to consolidate the order, as well as features of adopting ethical norms, changing and canceling them; to determine the functioning of special bodies adopting regulations and other procedures (for example, ethical councils); to authorize the application of norms and procedure of ethical responsibility to individuals who are subject to ethical norms of the sphere (area) of their activity; to establish control and supervisory measures for the activities of specially created bodies; to ensure the proper application of ethical standards.