19 Jun 2019 Medical implants raise safety and cybersecurity challenges for policy-makers In a new briefing note, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics highlights the ethical issues raised by th...
04 Apr 2019 Government and NHS leaders could do more to encourage collaborative relationships between healthcare staff and parents of critically ill children The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published a briefing note outlining the factors that can contr...
14 Mar 2019 Call for a global moratorium on heritable genome editing Yesterday in an article in Nature, a group of scientists and ethicists from seven countries called f...
26 Nov 2018 Nuffield Council statement on reports of gene-edited babies born in China Today, the media has reported that gene-edited babies have been born in China. If these reports are ...
20 Nov 2018 Risking the unknown in hope of a cure: The ethics of patient access to experimental treatments The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today published a new briefing note highlighting the ethical i...
06 Aug 2018 Response to Government’s plans for an ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation The Government has announced plans to move to an 'opt-out' system of consent for organ and tiss...
17 Jul 2018 Heritable genome editing: action needed to secure responsible way forward An independent inquiry by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that editing the DNA of a ...
15 May 2018 The big ethical questions for artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare AI in healthcare is developing rapidly, with many applications currently in use or in development in...
27 Apr 2018 Nuffield Council on Bioethics response to introduction of non-invasive prenatal screening in Wales From Monday, non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for Down's, Edwards', and Patau's syndromes ...