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Featured Article: Ethical concerns on sharing genomic data including patients’ family members

The ethical challenges of sharing the genomic data of a patient's family members is discussed in this recently published debate.

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| 22 June 2018

Good health checks according to the general public; expectations and criteria: a focus group study

Authors: Yrrah H. Stol, Eva C. A. Asscher and Maartje H. N. Schermer
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| 19 June 2018

Ethical competence in DNR decisions –a qualitative study of Swedish physicians and nurses working in hematology and oncology care

Authors: Mona Pettersson, Mariann Hedström and Anna T. Höglund
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| 19 June 2018

Ethical challenges assessed in the clinical ethics Committee of Psychiatry in the region of Southern Denmark in 2010–2015: a qualitative content analyses

Authors: H. Bruun, S. G. Lystbaek, E. Stenager, L. Huniche and R. Pedersen
Content type: Debate
| 18 June 2018

Ethical concerns on sharing genomic data including patients’ family members

Authors: Kyoko Takashima, Yuichi Maru, Seiichi Mori, Hiroyuki Mano, Tetsuo Noda and Kaori Muto
Content type: Research
| 15 June 2018

A reflection on the challenge of protecting confidentiality of participants while disseminating research results locally

Authors: Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay and Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux

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| 26 June 2005

Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists

Authors: Jonathan M Breslin, Susan K MacRae, Jennifer Bell and Peter A Singer
Content type: Research article
| 20 May 2012

The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Authors: Katie Page
Content type: Debate
| 7 October 2014

Teaching seven principles for public health ethics: towards a curriculum for a short course on ethics in public health programmes

Authors: Peter Schröder-Bäck, Peter Duncan, William Sherlaw, Caroline Brall and Katarzyna Czabanowska
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| 14 May 2010

Comparison of group counseling with individual counseling in the comprehension of informed consent: a randomized controlled trial

Authors: Rajiv Sarkar, Thuppal V Sowmyanarayanan, Prasanna Samuel, Azara S Singh, Anuradha Bose, Jayaprakash Muliyil and Gagandeep Kang
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| 29 March 2007

Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal

Authors: Bengt Kayser, Alexandre Mauron and Andy Miah

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BMC Medical Ethics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice, including professional choices and conduct, medical technologies, healthcare systems and health policies.

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Liam Messin, BioMed Central

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Yvonne Denier, University of Leuven
Beatrice Godard, University of Montreal
Anita Ho, University of British Columbia
Richard Huxtable, University of Bristol
Jonathan Ives, The University of Birmingham
Stuart Nicholls, University of Ottawa
Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University

Anita Ho, Section Editor

Anita Ho is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics at University of British Columbia and an Affiliate Faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. She has been Section Editor for the 'Ethics in biomedical research' section of BMC Medical Ethics since August 2015.

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Featured Article: Ethical concerns on sharing genomic data including patients’ family members

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Good health checks according to the general public; expectations and criteria: a focus group study

Ethical competence in DNR decisions –a qualitative study of Swedish physicians and nurses working in hematology and oncology care

Ethical challenges assessed in the clinical ethics Committee of Psychiatry in the region of Southern Denmark in 2010–2015: a qualitative content analyses

Ethical concerns on sharing genomic data including patients’ family members

A reflection on the challenge of protecting confidentiality of participants while disseminating research results locally

Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists

The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Teaching seven principles for public health ethics: towards a curriculum for a short course on ethics in public health programmes

Comparison of group counseling with individual counseling in the comprehension of informed consent: a randomized controlled trial

Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal

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