Critical care often unfolds amid uncertainty in diagnosis, therapeutic options and prognosis. Patients frequently lack ...

In Australia and other countries, certain groups of women have traditionally been denied access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). These typically are single heterosexual women, lesbians, ...

Following years of debate over the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), public health bodies in the UK and beyond have ...

Mobile health (mHealth) is rapidly being implemented and changing our ways of doing, understanding and organising healthcare. mHealth includes wearable devices as well as apps that track fitness, ...

Informed consent in surgical settings requires not only the accurate communication of medical information but also the establishment of trust through empathic engagement. The use of large language ...

Correspondence to Dr Susan Bull, The Ethox Centre & Wellcome Centre for Ethics and the Humanities, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, Oxfordshire, UK; ...

AI-assisted consent in paediatric medicine: ethical implications of using large language models to support decision-making (6 August, 2025) ...

Department of Philosophy & Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Felicitas Kraemer, Department of Philosophy & Ethics, Eindhoven University of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing healthcare and the practice of medicine as data-driven science and machine-learning technologies, in particular, are contributing to a variety of medical and ...

Communicating an unfavourable prognosis while maintaining patient hope represents a critical challenge for healthcare professionals (HPs). Duty requires respect for the right to patient autonomy while ...

This paper argues that the four prima facie principles—beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for autonomy and justice—afford a good and widely acceptable basis for ‘doing good medical ethics’. It ...