This article investigates the introduction of the Huntington’s Disease Integrated Staging System (HD-ISS) in research ...

Bioethics, like other areas of academic inquiry, needs to find new ways to ensure quality and integrity in publishing given the risks that generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses. We consider ...

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Recent reports from Canada have sparked debate about cases in which people with disabilities request assisted dying not primarily because of their medical conditions, but because of poverty, ...

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Everyone has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity. (Article 3, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights) Lawyers, philosophers and bioethics have long recognised a right to bodily ...

Recently, the possibility of extending the so-called 14-Day Rule on human embryonic research has received increased attention, but many ethical, legal, scientific and logistical questions about doing ...

One of the most dangerous forms of wrongdoing in healthcare occurs when harm no longer appears as wrongdoing at all. The failures at Mid Staffordshire National Health Service Foundation (NHS) Trust ...

The temporal inequality argument The ICB decision can be understood not merely as an efficiency measure but as an egalitarian response to time-sensitive need and inequality in advantage at a ...

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Fetuses and newborns cannot verbally express their pain or the absence of pain. However, there is considerable evidence that at 20–22 weeks after conception, the response to potentially painful ...