An AI-based ‘patient preference predictor’ (PPP) is a proposed method for guiding healthcare decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity. The proposal is to use correlations between ...

We recently suggested that there are both pragmatic and normative reasons to classify pregnancy as a disease. Several scholars argued against our claims. In this response, we defend the disease view ...

Correspondence to: Professor Tom Koch University of British Columbia, Department of Geography (Medical), 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 2Z1; tomkoch{at}shaw.ca The acceptance of military ...

Correspondence to Dr Avraham Steinberg, Medical Ethics Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, POB 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel; steinberg{at}e-tal.org Since time immemorial, medical ethics deliberations ...

Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly ...

Correspondence to: Dr J J M van Delden Julius Center for Health Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, HP Str 6.131, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands; j.j.m.vandelden{at}umcutrecht ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University ...

While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. A global effort to provide vaccines ...

The International Bill of Rights enshrines a right to health, which includes a right to access essential medicines. This right frequently appears to conflict with the intellectual property regime that ...

Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, University Medical Center, St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr E García, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, ...