“Futility” is a word which means the absence of benefit. It has been used to describe an absence of utility in resuscitation endeavours but it fails to do this. Futility does not consider the harms of ...
School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Dr Richard J Cooper, Division of Social Research in Medicines and Health, The University of Nottingham, University Park, ...
The recent criminal sentencing of a UK-based former paediatric surgeon for performing unauthorised childhood circumcisions for cultural and religious purposes—despite having been previously struck off ...
Correspondence to Catherine Chilute Chilanga, Health and Social Sciences- Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lighting Design, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg 3679, Norway; ...
1 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 ...
Correspondence to Dr Mari Stenlund, Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; mari.stenlund{at}helsinki.fi This article clarifies ...
The social support criterion is a significant factor used by US transplant centres to determine whether someone is eligible to be placed on the transplant list. Although intended to fairly allocate ...
Giordano1 takes issue with recommendation 6 of the Cass review to limit the provision of puberty blockers (PBs) and cross-sex hormones (CSHs) to a research study. She argues that PBs and CSHs do not ...
Correspondence to Dr R Scott Braithwaite, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 E 30th St, Room 615, New York NY 10016, USA; scott.braithwaite{at}nyumc.org ...