No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact ...

Although the issue of consent in medical practice has grown immensely in recent years, and it is generally believed that historical cases are unknown, our research amongst original ancient Greek and ...

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: A Hyder Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, E-8132 Baltimore ...

Advances in genetic diagnostics lead to more patients being diagnosed with hereditary conditions. These findings are often relevant to patients’ relatives. For example, the success of targeted cancer ...

The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a ‘gestateling’ by Elizabeth ...

The summer 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa illustrates global health's striking inequalities. Globalisation has also increased pandemics, and disparate health system conditions mean that ...

Mr M Doucet, Department of Philosophy, John Watson Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; 1wmd1{at}queensu.ca More than 40 primary studies, and three recent systematic reviews ...

In a recent article, Haining et al outline several ethical and regulatory considerations for polygenic risk scores (PRSs), ...

Correspondence to Dr Rach Cosker-Rowland, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; r.rowland{at}leeds.ac.uk Gender-affirming healthcare (GAH) ...

In a landmark judgment in the English Court of Protection, the judge (Charles J) found it to be in the best interests of a minimally conscious patient for clinically assisted nutrition and hydration ...

Correspondence to Dr Dominic Sisti, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; sistid{at}upenn.edu Once ...

1 Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Kapucijnenvoer 35, B-3000 Leuven; ...