Attitudes and behaviors of Japanese physicians concerning withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for end-of-life patients: results from an Internet survey
Evidence concerning how Japanese physicians think and behave in specific clinical situations that involve withholding or withdrawal of medical interventions for end-of-life or frail elderly patients is yet insufficient.

An eight-year follow-up national study of medical school and general hospital ethics committees in Japan
The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics and developments of ethics committees established at medical schools and general hospitals in Japan.

Microbicide research in developing countries: have we given the ethical concerns due consideration?
HIV prevention research has been fraught with ethical concerns since its inception.

Towards a dialogical ethics of interprofessionalism
In this essay we argue that for multidisciplinary relationships to be facilitated and to progress towards interdisciplinary teamwork, moral agents have to go beyond orthodox ethical systems and appeal to normative theory.

Bioethics in Germany: debates and infrastructure
This paper summarizes the main ethical and legal debates on bioethical issues in Germany, specifies the focus of leading German centres of bioethics and biolaw.

Ethical and practical issues in conducting clinical trials in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis
A need to continually assess the design of current and future research studies so that they may be conducted in the optimal and most ethical manner.

Scientists should adopt codes of ethics, scientist-bioethicist says
The time is ripe for scientific organizations to adopt codes of ethics, according to a scientist and bioethicist

Individuals with genetic conditions twice as likely to report health insurance denial
Large-scale study compares health insurance experiences, attitudes and beliefs of people with genetic conditions vs. people with other serious medical conditions

Should the UK adopt Dutch rules on euthanasia in newborn babies?
Euthanasia for newborn babies with lethal and disabling conditions is illegal worldwide, but in reality, its acceptance and practice vary between different countries.

Public Language and the Common Good
Lee Silver, professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton, recently published another provocative book.

Scientists, Ethics, and Public Engagement
Many scientists argue that the solution to the tension between science and society is to increase public understanding of science.

Bioethics: The Future of Human Dignity
During our lifetimes, we have become accustomed to a spiraling array of great technological advances.

Ghost authorship of industry funded drug trials is common
Ghost authorship is the failure to name, as an author, an individual who has made a substantial contribution to a scientific article.

Research advances on nanotech workplace health and safety
But more study needed to ensure worker protection

Evidence-Based Ethics for Neurology and Psychiatry Research
This paper discusses the background conditions that make neurotherapeutics research particularly challenging.

The parameters of informed consent
Demonstration of a well-conducted process, not merely of a paper, not only protects the physician from exposure to liability, but increases the patient’s autonomy in decisions concerning health and encourages compliance with treatment.

Bioscience-bioethics and life factors affecting reproduction with special reference to the Indigenous Australian population
The review also considers ways we may advance global and cultural maturity from the Indigenous Australian perspective and proposes an ecologically based model of preventative care.

Detaining patients is justified to contain deadly TB strain in South Africa say experts
A team of medical ethics and public health experts say tough isolation measures, involuntary if need be, are justified to contain a deadly, contagious, drug-resistant strain of TB in South Africa and to prevent "a potentially explosive international

What are the challenges faced by research ethics committees in Africa?
International guidelines and many nations' laws mandate that research with humans requires prior approval from a research ethics committee

Informed Consent in Living Organ Donors
Informed Consent has become one of the cornerstones of medical practice. ..