An AI-based ‘patient preference predictor’ (PPP) is a proposed method for guiding healthcare decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity. The proposal is to use correlations between ...

We recently suggested that there are both pragmatic and normative reasons to classify pregnancy as a disease. Several scholars argued against our claims. In this response, we defend the disease view ...

The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence to Ilana Levene, The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, Badenoch Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University ...

Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly ...

1 Kangasala Health Center, Kangasala, and Department of General Practice, Medical School, University of Tampere, Finland 2 Department of General Practice, Medical School, University of Tampere, ...

Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, University Medical Center, St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr E García, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Street, London, UK 3 Department of General Practice and Primary ...

Department of Legal and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain M D Pérez-Cárceles, Department of Legal and Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of ...

While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. A global effort to provide vaccines ...