The combination of the issue of return of individual genetic results/incidental findings and paediatric biobanks is not much discussed in ethical literature. The traditional arguments pro and con ...

Surrogate decision-making is fraught with speculation. Amid fogs of uncertainty, surrogates must ascertain an incapacitated patient’s wishes. From this, they are entrusted to make life-altering or ...

In 2024, new legislation introduced significant changes to the rules, procedures and institutions governing research ethics ...

1 National University of Singapore Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Singapore 2 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Semaglutide, ...

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 ...

Department of Philosophy and Medical Ethics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Correspondence to: T van Kleffens VU University Medical Center, Department of Philosophy and ...

Clinical trials in emergency situations present unique challenges, because they involve enrolling individuals who lack capacity to consent in the context of acute illness or injury. The US Department ...

Aims This study evaluates a protocol for early, routine ethics consultation (EC) for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to support decision-making in the context of clinical ...