One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The ...

Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where ...

'Đồng bào' (‘from the same fetus’): from implications for transplantation and ethics in crises to implications for global health (3 March, 2025) ...

Healthcare is one of the domains in which artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a major impact. Of interest is the idea of the digital twin (DT), an AI-powered technology that generates a ...

Correspondence to Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, East Sussex, UK; A.Shahvisi{at}bsms.ac.uk One of the most important motifs within (medical) ethics is ...

Braun has recently argued in this journal that an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying avoids the expressivist objection, namely that limiting access to assisted dying to those with irremediable ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.

Correspondence to Professor Saroj Jayasinghe, Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo 00800, Sri Lanka; saroj{at}clinmed.cmb.ac.lk Sponsorship of medical conferences by the ...

Policies for the allocation of COVID-19 vaccine were implemented in early 2021 as soon as vaccine became available. Those responsible for the planning and execution of COVID-19 vaccination had to make ...

Background To investigate attitudes of staff, residents and family members in long-term care towards sex and intimacy among older adults, specifically the extent to which they conceptualise sex and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic will likely recede only through development and distribution of an effective vaccine. Although there are many unknowns surrounding COVID-19 vaccine development, vaccine demand ...