Deepfakes are hyper-realistic but fabricated videos created with the use of artificial intelligence. In the context of ...

In 2021 and 2022, researchers carried out an implementation trial that considered how the capsule sponge test might be used ...

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 ...

In January 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics published online Giubilini and Minerva's paper, ‘After-birth abortion. Why should the baby live?’.1 The Journal publishes articles based on the quality ...

Correspondence to Dr Dominic Sisti, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; sistid{at}upenn.edu In this ...

Physicians are increasingly confronted with the consequences of allocation policies. In several countries, physicians have been assigned a gatekeeper role for secondary health care. Many ethicists ...

The urgent drive for vaccine development in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic has prompted public and private organisations to invest heavily in research and development of a COVID-19 vaccine ...

A new edition of the BMA’s handbook of ethics and law, Medical Ethics Today will be published in December. Based on the large volume of enquiries to the BMA’s medical ethics department, the book ...

2 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Correspondence to Dr Pesach Lichtenberg, Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, POB 3900, ...

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 ...