IRB’—application-specific large language models for research ethics review—may have different implications for ...
In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child ...
Gyngell et al argue that no intrinsic differences exist between embryos derived from fertilisation and stem cell-derived embryo models (SCEMs) that would justify attributing a higher moral status to ...
We agree with Smith and Mackie1 that voluntariness is a necessary condition of informed consent in medicine, including instances when people undergo vaccination. However, we disagree with the authors’ ...
Background End-of-life (EOL) care involves providing quality medical attention to the dying patient. It is fraught with some ethical challenges, often underexplored in African settings. This ...
On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court of the UK ruled that when interpreting the UK’s Equality Act (2010)—the Act of the UK Parliament that details protections against unlawful discrimination—the terms ...
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 ...
A growing number of bioethics papers endorse the harm threshold when judging whether to override parental decisions. Among other claims, these papers argue that the harm threshold is easily understood ...
Doctors have an ethical and legal duty to respect patient confidentiality. We consider the basis for this duty, looking particularly at the meaning and value of autonomy in health care. Enabling ...
Organoids are three-dimensional biological structures grown in vitro from different kinds of stem cells that self-organise mimicking real organs with organ-specific cell types. Recently, researchers ...
This paper defends an ‘opt-out’ scheme for organ procurement, by distinguishing this system from ‘presumed consent’ (which the author regards as an erroneous justification of it). It, first, stresses ...
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