Ryan and Savulescu recently offered an ethical analysis of the use of semaglutide-based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. In this response, we continue the discussion and argue that their framework ...

On 1 May 2004 research ethics committees became legally accountable to a new government body, the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority. This marks the end of the self regulation of research ...

Digital phenotyping is a novel approach to assessing individual health conditions by collecting and analysing data generated through interactions with digital devices. Although digital phenotyping is ...

Published recently in this journal, Arima1 argues that the following belief—that physicians do not usually intend diminished consciousness while giving drugs intended to reduce other symptoms such as ...

We respond to Gillon’s critique of our data-driven analysis of the history of Journal of Medical Ethics ( JME ), in which we used a topic model to trace intellectual trends in the journal’s first 50 ...

Stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) offer new ways for studying early human development while circumventing ethical challenges associated with natural embryos. Traditionally, SCBEMs are categorised ...

Human infection challenge studies (HCS) involve intentionally infecting research participants with pathogens (or other micro-organisms). There have been recent calls for more HCS to be conducted in ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) remains a controversial illness category. This paper surveys the state of knowledge and attitudes about this illness and proposes that ...

‘Doing good medical ethics’ involves attending to both the biomedical and existential aspects of illness. For this, we need to bring in a phenomenological perspective to the clinical encounter, adopt ...

Digital twins (DTs), advanced virtual models powered by AI, real-time data from wearable sensors, and predictive analytics, represent a groundbreaking approach to personalised healthcare. For ...

4 Pediatric Ethics Committee, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Correspondence to Dr Matthew R Hunt, Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉUM), University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, ...