Medical errors are all too common. Ever since a report issued by the Institute of Medicine raised awareness of this unfortunate reality, an emerging theme has gained ...

Artificial placenta technologies (also termed ‘artificial wombs’) for use in place of conventional neonatal intensive care ...

The objective of explainable artificial intelligence systems designed for clinical decision support (XAI-CDSS) is to enhance ...

After achieving sustained graft functioning in animal studies, the next step in the progression of xenotransplantation ...

2 Emeritus Professor of General Practice, King's College, London, UK. Correspondence to Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial ...

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to examine the way in which nurses manage patients who refuse nursing care procedures. Design: This paper reports on a qualitative study which was undertaken to ...

In Australia and other countries, certain groups of women have traditionally been denied access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). These typically are single heterosexual women, lesbians, ...

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 ...

Fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion. We have divergent views regarding ...

Materiality and practicality: a response to - are clinicians ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients?

In response to public outrage stemming from exposés of animal abuse in research laboratories, the US Congress in 1985 mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) to oversee animal ...

Correspondence to: A D N J de Grey Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK; ag24gen.cam.ac.uk On the ethics of extending human life: healthy people have ...