Barker et al argue that the ultimate goal of medicine is to cure and prevent disease and, because assisted dying is not in ...

Advancing the public interest’ is a criterion for de-identified data use for research via several national data platforms and ...

Barker et al argue that doctors should not administer lethal drugs primarily because it is inconsistent with the goal of medicine, which is to cure and prevent disease. Accordingly, they suggest the ...

Nitrogen hypoxia has recently emerged as a method of execution in the USA, with Alabama conducting the first executions using this technique in 2024. This article examines the historical evolution, ...

Following the article of Ugar and Malele, Pozzi and De Proost provide a necessary addition to the discussion around machine learning (ML) in mental health diagnosis. However, their analysis of ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT have several potential clinical applications, but their use for clinical documentation remains underexplored. AI-generated clinical ...

Background Toomey et al (2024) found that US participants were more likely to follow a medical treatment preference—expressed after substantial cognitive decline—of a third person rather than their ...

Normothermic regional perfusion during controlled donation after circulatory death has emerged as a means to increase the number and viability of organs available for transplant. Because normothermic ...

The standard approach to protecting privacy in healthcare aims to control access to personal information. We cannot regain control of information after it has been shared, so we must restrict access ...

Non-compliance is a label often used about patients who do not follow therapeutic advice. This paper analyses the notion of compliance, and tries to show that this notion is inextricably bound to a ...

This article gives a brief overview of the state of the art concerning physical restraint use among older persons in nursing homes. Within this context we identify some essential values and norms that ...

The Roman Catholic Church in Australia has lobbied politicians to prohibit embryonic stem cell research, on the grounds that such research violates the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. I ...