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High proportion of medical photographs from case reports was found on Google Images, raising ethical and policy concerns, study finds University of Calgary researchers are raising questions about ethics and individual patient privacy, after their research found a surprising majority of the medical photos they searched for were easily found on Google Images.

In the form of a scientific article published at the end of January in the journal Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, the team led by éric Racine , from the Université de Montréal, is proposing for the first time a formal definition of living ethics and its founding principles. In a creative, collaborative approach, this publication addresses the theoretical, methodological and practical frameworks that govern living ethics, as well as the factors that can hinder its implementation.