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 ...

Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University ...

1 Kangasala Health Center, Kangasala, and Department of General Practice, Medical School, University of Tampere, Finland 2 Department of General Practice, Medical School, University of Tampere, ...

Correspondence to Professor Luca Valera, Bioethics Centre and Department of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile; luvalera{at}uc.cl Introduction The idea of ...

Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, University Medical Center, St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr E García, Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Transplantation, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Street, London, UK 3 Department of General Practice and Primary ...

While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. A global effort to provide vaccines ...

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 ...