Declaration of Helsinki: Full paragraph-by-paragraph comparison indicating changes in version 19 October 2024 compared with the most previous version of 19 October 2013

This full paragraph-by-paragraph comparison of the recently released Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) (version October 19, 2024) with the most previous version of 19 October 2013 is intended as a service to the international bioethics and medical research communities to assist in identifying the changes recently introduced by the World Medical Association (WMA). A brief preliminary commentary is added to each paragraph as a point of reflection on some of the changes in order to assist the reader in situating the context and considerations the changes may give rise to.