The right to informed consent is a core ethical principle. Recent audits of patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and ...

Background: In Switzerland, non-medical right-to-die organisations such as Exit Deutsche Schweiz and Dignitas offer suicide assistance to members suffering from incurable diseases. Objectives: First, ...

1 Ethics Program, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia; savulesj ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bldg.

Correspondence to: Dr E B Wu Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Ngan Shing Street, Shatin, Hong Kong; ebwu{at}netvigator.com If you ...

There is an increasing tendency for administrators and government to expect both the health services and the education service to 'show results' for the investment of public money in them. One ...

This essay lays the groundwork for a novel conception of autonomy that may be called “effective autonomy”—a conception designed to be genuinely action guiding in bioethics. As empirical psychology ...