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, ...

Braun has recently argued in this journal that an autonomy-based approach to assisted dying avoids the expressivist objection, namely that limiting access to assisted dying to those with irremediable ...

Tessa Jane Holzman and Julian Savulescu note that suicide prevention is currently considered to be a matter of public health, with the policy goal of preventing all deaths by suicide. Holzman and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Correspondence to Xavier Symons, Plunkett Centre for Ethics, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia; xavier.symons{at}acu.edu.au Savulescu (forthcoming) argues that it may be ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kristiane T Eide, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, 5018 Bergen, Norway; kristiane.eide{at}uib.no Caesarean delivery is a common and ...

Correspondence to Professor Katrina A Bramstedt, Bond University Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; txbioethics{at}yahoo.com Worldwide there are currently over ...

In 1993, the UK High Court decided that Tony Bland was unaware of himself and his environment, had no interest in medical treatment and allowed withdrawal of treatment. Subsequently, the court has ...

The use of black box algorithms in medicine has raised scholarly concerns due to their opaqueness and lack of trustworthiness. Concerns about potential bias, accountability and responsibility, patient ...