Non-treatment decisions concerning demented patients are complex: in addition to issues concerning the health of patients, ethical and legal issues are involved. This paper describes a method for the ...

The purpose of this essay is to stimulate academic discussion about the ethical justification of using human primordial stem cells for tissue transplantation, cell replacement, and gene therapy. There ...

The question a judge has to ask in deciding whether or not life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn is whether the continued treatment is lawful. It will be lawful if it is in the patient’s best ...

The author congratulates Dr Brian Hurwitz, who recently reported the successful “intimidation” of an elderly competent widow into accepting badly needed therapy for a huge ulcerated carcinoma. He ...

In response to public outrage stemming from exposés of animal abuse in research laboratories, the US Congress in 1985 mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) to oversee animal ...

The aim of shared decision-making (SDM) is to provide information to patients in order to enable them to decide autonomously and freely about treatment together with the doctor, without interference, ...

1 Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA 2 Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA 3 Associate Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical ...

Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Nikki J Kerruish, Department of Paediatrics, University of Otago, ...

While rich countries like the USA and UK are starting to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, poor countries may lack access to a vaccine for years. A global effort to provide vaccines ...

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria & Weskoppies Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa Correspondence to: Dr C W Van Staden, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pretoria, P.O. Box 667, ...

If we are sufficientarians about health, then why do we care about health inequality? This is an important ethical question ...

School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA Correspondence to: J P Bentley Faser Hall 219A, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA; ...