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

In this article, we review the extant social science and ethical literature on three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has the potential to be a ‘game-changer’, printing human organs on ...

Patient preference predictors (PPPs) promise to provide medical professionals with a new solution to the problem of making treatment decisions on behalf of incapacitated patients. I show that the use ...

When consent to medical treatment is described as ‘valid’, it might simply mean that it has a sound basis, or it could mean that it is legally valid. Where the two meanings are regularly interchanged, ...

Correspondence to: Professor J Savulescu Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; julian.savulescu{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or ...

A recent controversy over the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity's recommendation to censor two publications on genetically modified H5N1 avian influenza has generated concern over the ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a debilitating illness that affects quality of life and life expectancy for patients. In Cameroon, it is now possible to opt for termination of an affected pregnancy (TAP) ...

Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, Section for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo Reidar Pedersen, Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, Section for Medical Ethics ...

New uses of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to screen embryos prior to transfer raise ethical, legal, and policy issues that deserve close attention. Extensions for medical purposes, such as ...

In this article, we provide an ethical analysis of the first porcine cardiac xenotransplant, performed in Maryland, USA in early 2022. David Bennett was offered the experimental procedure after he was ...

Correspondence to: J McMillan Department of Philosophy, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; john.mcmillan{at}hyms.ac.uk The Social Value Judgments consultation document reveals NICE’s failure to ...

According to many scholars, kidney xenotransplantation promises to mitigate the organ supply shortage. This claim has a certain obviousness to it: by flooding the market with a new source of kidneys, ...