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Featured Blog: Editor's Highlights 2018

2018 was an exciting year for BMC Medical Ehics, in which we published a wide range of interesting articles. Read the Editor's Pick 2018 blog to find a few of the papers worth revisiting from BMC Medical Ethics.

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Featured Article: Reuse of cardiac organs in transplantation: an ethical analysis

The ethical aspects of organ transplant surgery in which a donor heart is transplanted from a first recipient to a second recipient is explored in this study.

Content type: Research article
| 16 July 2019

Experiences from a community advisory Board in the Implementation of early access to ART for all in Eswatini: a qualitative study

Authors: Charmaine Khudzie Mlambo, Eva Vernooij, Roos Geut, Eliane Vrolings, Buyisile Shongwe, Saima Jiwan, Yvette Fleming and Gavin Khumalo
Content type: Research article
| 16 July 2019

Implementing ethics reflection groups in hospitals: an action research study evaluating barriers and promotors

Authors: Henriette Bruun, Reidar Pedersen, Elsebeth Stenager, Christian Backer Mogensen and Lotte Huniche
Content type: Debate
| 15 July 2019

Do we understand the intervention? What complex intervention research can teach us for the evaluation of clinical ethics support services (CESS)

Authors: Jan Schildmann, Stephan Nadolny, Joschka Haltaufderheide, Marjolein Gysels, Jochen Vollmann and Claudia Bausewein
Content type: Research article
| 8 July 2019

A reflection on ethical and methodological challenges of using separate interviews with adolescent-older carer dyads in rural South Africa

Authors: Dumile Gumede, Nothando B. Ngwenya, Stella Namukwaya, Sarah Bernays and Janet Seeley
Content type: Research article
| 5 July 2019

Is the non-identity problem relevant to public health and policy? An online survey

Authors: Keyur Doolabh, Lucius Caviola, Julian Savulescu, Michael J. Selgelid and Dominic Wilkinson

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Content type: Debate
| 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
Content type: Research article
| 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
Content type: Debate
| 29 March 2007

Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal

Authors: Bengt Kayser, Alexandre Mauron and Andy Miah

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Driving Regenerative Medicine to the Market and Clinic: An Exploration of Enablers, Impediments and Ethical-Legal Challenges

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Aims and scope

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

Manuscript Editor

Ana Donnelly, BioMed Central

Assistant Editor

Eleanor Harding, BioMed Central

Section Editors

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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Announcing the launch of In Review

Featured Blog: Editor's Highlights 2018

Featured Article: Reuse of cardiac organs in transplantation: an ethical analysis

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Experiences from a community advisory Board in the Implementation of early access to ART for all in Eswatini: a qualitative study

Implementing ethics reflection groups in hospitals: an action research study evaluating barriers and promotors

Do we understand the intervention? What complex intervention research can teach us for the evaluation of clinical ethics support services (CESS)

A reflection on ethical and methodological challenges of using separate interviews with adolescent-older carer dyads in rural South Africa

Is the non-identity problem relevant to public health and policy? An online survey

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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Anita Ho, Section Editor

BMC Series blog

An Interview with BMC Materials Section Editor, Professor Wenguo Cui

What are the most effective interventions to improve physical performance in pre-frail and frail adults? It’s surprisingly hard to tell.

EULAR 2019: highlights from the annual conference

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