Human infection challenge (HIC) studies where healthy volunteers are deliberately infected expedite vaccine development.

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Unintended and unwanted outcomes are an inherent aspect of healthcare practice, posing significant moral challenges for ...

While Devanesan1 argues that any particular mereological view of pregnancy does not determine the correct stance on a moral ...

Bair’s recent article ( J Med Ethics , 2026) offers a thoughtful Wittgensteinian analysis of ‘understanding’ in informed ...

In ‘Normalising Transparency,’ Earp and colleagues provide a compelling argument for mandatory declarations about artificial ...

In February 2025, while on a research visit to Sierra Leone, one of the authors (PK) found hundreds of blister packs of ...

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Intravenous ketamine and intranasal esketamine have shown rapid effects in reversing suicidality and improving depressive symptoms. In countries that allow psychiatric euthanasia and/or assisted ...

Spontaneous surgical innovation (SSI) is surgical innovation that occurs in response to an intraoperative emergency, where standard approaches are either unknown to the surgeon or not available. But ...

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 ...