Category Research Ethics

Should Practicing Healthcare Ethicists be Advocates?

Angel Petropanagos and Andria Bianchi highlight the lack of agreement about what “advocacy” means in healthcare and suggest that a narrowly defined advocacy role is necessary for the work of practicing healthcare ethicists.

Mind the Ethical Gap in AI-Powered Drug Discovery

Dessislava Fessenko shows that while artificial intelligence might revolutionize drug development, its use comes with risks and potential ethical implications. Iterative ethics oversight from the get-go is needed to address the looming concerns.

COVID-19 Vaccines: Did Research Exclusion Affect Informed Consent?

Thomas Milovac looks back at the groups initially excluded from COVID-19 vaccine research, such as pregnant and breast-feeding women, and considers whether their exclusion prevented members of these groups from being able to provide informed consent to vaccination.

Whose Responsibility Are Ethical Issues in Phase 1 Research?

Dessislava Fessenko reveals that ethical concerns surrounding the participation of healthy volunteers in Phase 1 clinical trials have deep roots in broader social conditions, which require social policy responses.

Human Genome Editing: From the First to the Third International Summit

Françoise Baylis discusses the outcome of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing.