Semaglutide, sold under the brand names of Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, is one of the most popular drugs on the market.

Introduction The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare introduces innovative possibilities but raises ethical, legal and professional concerns. Assessing the performance of AI in ...

The trend towards postponement of childbearing has seen increasing numbers of women turning towards oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE banking), which offers a realistic chance of ...

What Is a Person: Untapped Insights from Africa, a new book by Nancy Jecker and Caesar Atuire, offers an appealing and fresh perspective into ongoing debates surrounding personhood.1 The bioethics ...

The Roman Catholic Church in Australia has lobbied politicians to prohibit embryonic stem cell research, on the grounds that such research violates the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. I ...

Correspondence to Dr Cristina Richie, Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft 2628, The Netherlands; c.s.richie{at}tudelft.nl The US healthcare industry emits an ...

UK doctors’ strikes 2023–2024: still justified in the interests of public health, even in time-critical outpatient contexts (13 July, 2024) ...

Physicians have an ethical responsibility to their patients to offer the best available medical care. This responsibility conflicts with their role as gatekeepers of the limited health care resources ...

Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to Fiona Wood, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, ...

Although this editorial will be published in the February 2025 issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics, I am writing it in the run up to the Christmas and the winter holidays, after a busy term, and ...

Objective: Little empirical evidence exists to support either side of the ongoing debate over whether legalising physician aid in dying would undermine patient trust. Design: A random national sample ...