IRB’—application-specific large language models for research ethics review—may have different implications for ...

In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child ...

In recent years, ‘nudge’ theory has gained increasing attention for the design of population-wide health interventions. The concept of nudge puts a label on efficacious influences that preserve ...

We agree with Smith and Mackie1 that voluntariness is a necessary condition of informed consent in medicine, including instances when people undergo vaccination. However, we disagree with the authors’ ...

Background End-of-life (EOL) care involves providing quality medical attention to the dying patient. It is fraught with some ethical challenges, often underexplored in African settings. This ...

Gyngell et al argue that no intrinsic differences exist between embryos derived from fertilisation and stem cell-derived embryo models (SCEMs) that would justify attributing a higher moral status to ...

“Lay epidemiology” is a term used to describe the processes through which health risks are understood and interpreted by laypeople. It is seen as a barrier to public health when the public disbelieves ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper spotlights ways in which sexual capacities ...

A growing number of bioethics papers endorse the harm threshold when judging whether to override parental decisions. Among other claims, these papers argue that the harm threshold is easily understood ...

Doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect patient confidentiality. We consider the basis for this duty, looking particularly at the meaning and value of autonomy in health care. Enabling ...