Centre for Applied Public Health Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. Screening programmes are becoming increasingly popular since prevention is considered 'better than cure'.

Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, ...

4 The Sahlgrenska Academy, Faculty of Health and Caring Sciences, Institute of Nursing, Göteborg University, Sweden Correspondence to: Dr A S Ågård Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University ...

Healthcare provision for transgender and gender-diverse young people (TGDY) remains emotive, controversial and ethically challenging.1 The indefinite ban on the prescription of puberty blockers (PBs) ...

2 Centre for Antobiotic Resistance Research (CARe), Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health (CELAM), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Correspondence to Professor Christian Munthe, ...

As biomedical science progresses and novel ethical values and questions emerge, there is a practical need for professional ethicists to identify and address them. Responding to emerging ethical values ...

The proper distribution of scarce medical resources is a heavily debated topic in medical ethics. Some have argued that allocation strategies should sometimes incorporate whether a particular health ...

Navigating parental requests: considering the relational potential standard in paediatric end-of-life care in the paediatric intensive care unit (15 November, 2023) ...

1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...

Correspondence to Dr John Coverdale, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA; jhc{at}bcm.edu Incivility among ...

Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) remains a controversial illness category. This paper surveys the state of knowledge and attitudes about this illness and proposes that ...