Evidence & Ethics: Once More into the Fray.

The last time I penned a concise argument for the Journal I focused on articles which raised interesting questions about the interplay between evidence and ethics in healthcare practice. Two articles in this month’s issue highlight once more the importance of this relationship. The first is Meixel, Yanchar, and Fugh-Berman’s article ‘Hypoactive sexual desire disorder: inventing a disease to sell low libido’ which is this month’s editor’s choice article. The second is Cate, van de Vathorst, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, and Agnes van der Heide’s article ‘End-of-life decisions for children under 1 year of age in the Netherlands: decreased frequency of administration of drugs to deliberately hasten death’.