Pausing COVID-19 vaccine rollouts can backfire. There are better ways to manage safety issues while they’re being investigated.
- Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
There is a difference between people who deliberately seek out vaccines outside the system, and those who are offered them because they’re about to expire.
From February 15, people travelling to the UK from a country on the UK’s travel-ban list will be required to quarantine in a government-approved hotel for ten days.
At a secret location in London, volunteers will receive a COVID vaccine and subsequently be deliberately infected with the coronavirus.
The fundamental ethos of the NHS is egalitarian.
What treatment do you want if you fall critically ill?
If the COVID-19 outbreak becomes a pandemic, there will be many difficult ethical decisions for health services.
New guidance recommends lifesaving treatment for extremely premature babies – but what does this mean for an abortion cut off at a similar gestation? An ethicist takes a look.
Young people with gender dysphoria have high rates of mental health issues which makes conducting ethical research trials complex.
The pope, presidents and parents can voice their opinion on right-to-die cases, but they shouldn’t get to decide.
You have to draw an ethical line somewhere so if you were vegan, would you still eat avocados?
Fertility treatment in older age might be tougher, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done.
The number of new Zika-related microcephaly cases in Brazil is falling. But it’s too early to relax.
Some have criticised the idea of birth control to counter small heads in babies thought to be linked to Zika virus but it’s an opportunity.
People at the end of life may not actually be the best target for expensive drugs.
Studies have found that doctors often overestimate survival in terminally ill patients, not the other way round.
In Australia, there are approximately 1,200 infants who die every year before their first birthday, most in the first days or weeks of life. But there are no palliative care services available to these…
Recently on The Conversation, legal academic Neera Bhatia drew attention to two recent Australian court cases of withdrawing of life-saving medical treatment from infants with severe brain damage. She…
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