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

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 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 ...

1 Department of Medical Decision Making, of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Department of Surgery of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 ...

Department of Philosophy and Medical Ethics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Correspondence to: T van Kleffens VU University Medical Center, Department of Philosophy and ...

Correspondence to Dr Gregory L Bock, Department of Literature and Languages, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX 75799, USA; gbock{at}uttyler.edu The purpose of this paper is to propose a ...

1 Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Australia; Department of Paediatrics and Centre for the Study of ...

The fair innings argument maintains that for healthcare resources to be distributed fairly every person should receive sufficient healthcare to provide them with the opportunity to live in good health ...

Correspondence to Dr Henry Silverman, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 South Paca Street/2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; hsilverm{at}medicine.umaryland.edu Purpose Many research ...

Professor Jennett first defines the term `brain death' and the problems arising from a diagnosis of death, some the result of recent technological advances. The diagnosis is not necessarily connected ...