The World Bank is committed to “work[ing] with countries to improve the health, nutrition and population outcomes of the world's poor, and to protect[ing] the population from the impoverishing effects ...

The fair innings argument maintains that for healthcare resources to be distributed fairly every person should receive sufficient healthcare to provide them with the opportunity to live in good health ...

We recently suggested that there are both pragmatic and normative reasons to classify pregnancy as a disease. Several scholars argued against our claims. In this response, we defend the disease view ...

1 Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Australia; Department of Paediatrics and Centre for the Study of ...

Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly ...

‘This has given me the peace of mind I needed’: ethnographic insights into Barrett’s oesophagus screening using the capsule sponge test ...

The urgent drive for vaccine development in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic has prompted public and private organisations to invest heavily in research and development of a COVID-19 vaccine ...

Deepfakes are hyper-realistic but fabricated videos created with the use of artificial intelligence. In the context of ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Wheeler, Women's and Children's Health, University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; ben.wheeler{at}otago.ac.nz Objective To ...

One argument for the permissibility of euthanasia found in the African philosophical tradition suggests that the sole goal of ...