This Current Controversy article critically reviews the recent motion by delegates of the British Medical Association to ...

Animals can only be used in research when there is a convincing scientific justification, when the expected benefits of the ...

In their response to Shahvisi, Porat-Wojakowski et al challenge what they describe as the ‘medicalisation of war’, cautioning ...

The increasing integration of genomic medicine into routine medical care brings to light issues of complexity and uncertainty ...

Arima’s critical examination of double-effect sedation (DES)1 is a crucial course correction in the ethical discourse ...

Introduction Scholars have debated how to define coercion and undue influence, but how institutional review boards (IRBs) view and make decisions about these issues in actual cases has not been ...

While the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in research has sparked controversy internationally, the use of large language models (LLMs) in the ethics review of research protocols is ...

Germline genomic testing to assess the suitability of stem cell donors in the treatment of haematological malignancy: clinical ethics commentary ...

Correspondence to Sophia McCully, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK; sophia.mccully{at}kcl.ac.uk For the past 40 years, the 14-day rule has ...

Background: The increasing number of elderly people in nursing homes with failing competence to give consent represents a great challenge to healthcare staff’s protection of patient autonomy in the ...

1 Departments of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2 Department of Community Health, University of Malawi, College of ...