Ryan and Savulescu recently offered an ethical analysis of the use of semaglutide-based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. In this response, we continue the discussion and argue that their framework ...

In their timely and compelling article, Quiñones and Puzio argue that digital twins (DTs) hold potential for empowering trans healthcare by enabling more personalised and inclusive forms of care.1 ...

The forthcoming Enhanced Games , scheduled for May 2026 in Las Vegas, mark a disruptive moment in the history of competitive sports. By institutionalising the use of performance-enhancing drugs under ...

We respond to Gillon’s critique of our data-driven analysis of the history of Journal of Medical Ethics ( JME ), in which we used a topic model to trace intellectual trends in the journal’s first 50 ...

Published recently in this journal, Arima1 argues that the following belief—that physicians do not usually intend diminished consciousness while giving drugs intended to reduce other symptoms such as ...

Mandatory calorie labelling policies (MCLs) are widely defended as neutral tools for promoting public health. This paper argues that they are neither neutral, in effect or justification, nor justified ...

Warnings that large language models (LLMs) could ‘dehumanise’ medical decision-making often rest on an asymmetrical comparison: the idealised, attentive healthcare provider versus a clumsy, ...

Stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) offer new ways for studying early human development while circumventing ethical challenges associated with natural embryos. Traditionally, SCBEMs are categorised ...

Human infection challenge studies (HCS) involve intentionally infecting research participants with pathogens (or other micro-organisms). There have been recent calls for more HCS to be conducted in ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) remains a controversial illness category. This paper surveys the state of knowledge and attitudes about this illness and proposes that ...

‘Doing good medical ethics’ involves attending to both the biomedical and existential aspects of illness. For this, we need to bring in a phenomenological perspective to the clinical encounter, adopt ...