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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into pharmaceutical practices raises critical ethical concerns, including algorithmic bias, data commodification and global health inequities. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Objectives To investigate which of two sources of information about an older adult’s wishes—choices made in an advance directive or proxy’s opinion—provides better insight into the older adult’s ...

Correspondence to R Grant Steen, Medical Communications Consultants, LLC 103 Van Doren Place, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA; g_steen_medicc{at}yahoo.com Background Scientific papers are retracted for ...

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 ...