In the current debate about healthcare reform in the USA, advocates for government-ensured universal coverage assume that health care is a right. Although this position is politically popular, it is ...

‘Advancing the public interest’ is a criterion for de-identified data use for research via several national data platforms and biobanks. This may be referred to via cognate terms such as public ...

As support for clinical ethics committees in the UK grows, care must be taken to define their function, membership and method of working and the status of their decisions. The modern practice of ...

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

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, ...

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

Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousness criterion or an obligatory dangerousness criterion (ODC). A dangerousness criterion holds that ...

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 ...

Screening programmes are becoming increasingly popular since prevention is considered 'better than cure'. While earlier diagnosis may result in more effective treatment for some, there will be ...