Bioethics, like other areas of academic inquiry, needs to find new ways to ensure quality and integrity in publishing given ...

Correspondence to Professor William G. Newman, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9WL, UK; william.newman{at}manchester.ac.uk As a clinical geneticist I ...

Correspondence to Dr Felicity L Bishop, Centre for Clinical and Community, Applications of Health Psychology, Faculty of Social Human and Mathematical Sciences, Building 44 Highfield Campus, ...

Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Franklin G Miller, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bldg.

Objective To present (1) the ethical concepts related to the debate on resuscitation of extremely premature infants (EPIs) as they are described in the ethical literature; and (2) the ethical ...

School of Public Health, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India Correspondence to Dr Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, School of Public Health, SRM University, Medical College Third Floor, ...

Research involving adults who lack capacity to consent relies on proxy (or surrogate) decision making. Proxy decisions about participation are ethically complex, with a disparity between normative ...

1 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 2 Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of ...

Recent news reports describe a multibillion dollar health cooperation agreement between the Kenyan government and the USA, under which access to ‘de-identified and aggregated’ data from Kenyan health ...

Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may trigger challenges to capacity and to consider the implications of ...

Correspondence to: Ms L C Anderson Bioethics Center, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand; lynley.andersonstonebow.otago.ac.nz Success in sport can provide a source of national pride ...

An Indian Court recently awarded 50,000 rupees damages to a couple who gave birth to their fourth daughter. The couple were mistakenly told they were carrying a male fetus. The doctor mistook a ...