By introducing proprietary, patent-protected, genetically engineered porcine organs into an organ transplant system, kidney ...

The debate over fetal and neonatal pain sits at the intersection of empirical science and ethical judgement. Advances in ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in Japan implemented strict visitation restrictions. While national guidance evolved and COVID-19 was legally reclassified in May 2023, publicly available ...

Illness perception (IP) is how individuals interpret a medical condition through their values, beliefs and experiences. In ...

Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Correspondence to Kris Dierickx, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ...

To build on this approach, we recognise safety and efficacy come in a matter of degree, not kind, and the response by the physician should be informed based on the degree of safety and efficacy of a ...

This paper critically engages Jasper Debrabander’s defence of the right not to know in the context of incidental findings. Although Debrabander reinforces the autonomy-based justification of this ...

Interest in the integration of traditional and biomedical health practices is growing globally, as indicated by the WHO’s 2023 global summit on traditional medicines. The place of traditional ...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists promote weight loss, suppressing appetite among other effects. Recent evidence suggests they may similarly placate desire when it comes to alcoholism and even ...

Correspondence to Dr Dominic Sisti, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; sistid{at}pennmedicine.upenn.edu Medical cannabis is widely ...

The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...

No one has the right to say what should be done to their body after death In my opinion any concept of property in the human body either during life or after death is biologically inaccurate and ...