Background As a significant proportion of patients receiving palliative care suffer from states
of anxiety, depression, delirium, or other mental symptoms, psychiatry and palliative care …

Living organ donation has developed into an important therapeutic option in transplantation
medicine. However, there are some medico-ethical problems that come along with the …

Background: Women's mobile health (mHealth) is a growing phenomenon in the mobile app
global market. An increasing number of women worldwide use apps geared to female …

Vaccinations are without doubt one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, and
there is hope that they can constitute a solution to halt the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic …

This article discusses the results and implications of the recently published findings of the
Swiss Medical Board Panel on the benefits and harms of mammography screening …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we create and evaluate information, and this is
happening during an infodemic, which has been having marked effects on global health …

Abstract On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization classified COVID‐19, caused by
Sars‐CoV‐2, as a pandemic. Although not much was known about the new virus, the first …

COVID-19—classified as a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020—is expected to put
tremendous strain on many healthcare systems. Early epidemiological analyses show that …

The aim of this paper is to compare the different existing approaches to advance health care
directives within the European context, and to explore the possibility of reaching a deeper …

As synthetic biology develops into a promising science and engineering field, we need to
have clear ideas and priorities regarding its safety, security, ethical and public dialogue …