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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

1 King's College London, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2 Division of ...

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 ...