Objective Current consent processes often fail to communicate study information effectively and may lead to disparities in study participation. The 2018 Common Rule introduced a mandatory key ...

Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations. The core argument was ...

As India moves to expand clinical trials, with the 2026-27 budget allocating Rs 10,000 crore over five years to strengthen ...

A client struggling with gender identity asks for conversion therapy. You know it is harmful but a court decision seems to ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the story of an ordinary African-American woman whose cells were taken without ...

Ryan and Savulescu argue that prescribing Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) for weight loss is ethically justified on grounds of autonomy, health benefit and harm reduction. This ...

aDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium bDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium cQuality Assurance Unit, ...

Madison Patrick is a sociology and public health major and a 2024-25 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Despite the invaluable contribution of medical ...

Individual written informed consent may present a barrier to the feasibility and inclusiveness of such low-risk clinical research. Within an overarching moral and ethical framework, the form and ...

Failure to obtain informed consent can result in significant consequences Exceptions to informed consent apply only in limited circumstances Elements of valid informed consent include patient capacity ...

Jan DeFehr argues that ethical practice requires access to what the field itself disputes, including the risks people rarely hear about. Her new book, A Critical Mental Health Primer: Towards Informed ...