Digital twins (DTs), advanced virtual models powered by AI, real-time data from wearable sensors, and predictive analytics, ...

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, ...

Medicine, Ethics, Society and History, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Greg Moorlock, Medicine, Ethics, Society and History, University of Birmingham, 90 Vincent Drive, ...

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 ...

1 National University of Singapore Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore 2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Semaglutide, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kathleen Liddell, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK; k.liddell{at}law.cam.ac.uk COVID-19 is a highly contagious infection with no proven treatment.

This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical ethics’. It ...

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision ...

Correspondence to Dr Harald Schmidt, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; schmidth{at}upenn.edu Withholding or ...

Correspondence to Dr Hazem Zohny, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; hazem.zohny{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk Animal ethics committees (AECs) typically focus on the ...

Human Rights and Bioethics Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 89 Commercial Road, Melbourne 3004, Victoria, Australia If you ...

Medicine is not merely a job that requires technical expertise, but a profession concerned with making the best decisions and recommendations with reference to, and in consultation with, the patient.