So, if the only options available in order to save the life of one morally considerable being is to cause harm, but not death, to another morally considerable being, then according to a utilitarian position, causing this harm may be morally justifiable.
There is no proof that individualised herbal medicines do any good but a significant risk that they may do harm, according to a study published today.
The bulk of anti-vaccination content doesn't violate Facebook's community guidelines for inciting "real-world harm," according to a spokesman, and the site's algorithms often promote unscientific pages or posts about the issue.
Despite the Indian government's considerable attention to the problem, the rescue and reintegration apparatus is beset by a range of problems that can leave children at risk of further harm, according to a new report published today by Harvard University's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.
A single mutation in a gene can lengthen a mouse's life by nearly a third without any noticeable harm, according to a study in today's Nature.
The overuse of two specific diagnostic strategies to evaluate patients for blood clots in the lung (pulmonary emboli) may lead to unnecessary costs as well as increased downstream testing that may instead put patients at risk for harm, according to a new consensus guideline released by the American College of Physicians (ACP) yesterday and published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Even worse, fitness DVDs could potentially cause psychological harm, according to a recent article in medicine.net.net
Young people who identify as goths are at an increased risk of suffering from depression and more likely to self harm, according to a study that seems less the product of scientific rigor, more just written on the strength of yer da's hunch.
Young people who identify as goths are at an increased risk of suffering from depression and more likely to self harm, according to a study that seems less the product of scientific rigour, more just written on the strength of yer da's hunch.
In the first half of 2015, according to a report by drug charity Harm Reduction International, there were an estimated 570 executions in Iran, of which 394 people (69percentt) were allegedly drug offenders.
