One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The ...

Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where ...

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Artificial intelligence is currently changing many areas of society. Especially in health, where critical decisions are made, questions of control must be renegotiated: who is in control when an ...

Interest in the integration of traditional and biomedical health practices is growing globally, as indicated by the WHO’s 2023 global summit on traditional medicines. The place of traditional ...

To build on this approach, we recognise safety and efficacy come in a matter of degree, not kind, and the response by the physician should be informed based on the degree of safety and efficacy of a ...

The right to informed consent is a core ethical principle. Recent audits of patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and ...

People in vulnerable positions who need support in their daily lives often face challenges in receiving timely access to care; for instance, due to disabilities or individual and situational ...

1 National University of Singapore Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore 2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Semaglutide, ...

In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child they had birthed 2 years earlier had not come from their own embryos, but ...

This paper examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into cancer screening programmes, focusing on the associated equity challenges and resource allocation implications. While AI ...

East Asian countries such as South Korea have recently made headlines for experimenting with different methods to incentivise people to have (more) children, in a bid to reverse declining birth rates.