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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.

Reporting of ethical approval and informed consent in clinical research published in leading nursing journals: a retrospective observational study

Authors: Yanni Wu, Michelle Howarth, Chunlan Zhou, Mingyu Hu and Weilian Cong

Content type: Research article

5 December 2019
Experience of oncology residents with death: a qualitative study in Mexico

Authors: Asunción Álvarez-del-Río, Edwin Ortega-García, Luis Oñate-Ocaña and Ingrid Vargas-Huicochea

Content type: Research article

5 December 2019
Are physicians on the same page about do-not-resuscitate? To examine individual physicians’ influence on do-not-resuscitate decision-making: a retrospective and observational study

Authors: Yen-Yuan Chen, Melany Su, Shu-Chien Huang, Tzong-Shinn Chu, Ming-Tsan Lin, Yu-Chun Chiu and Kuan-Han Lin

Content type: Research article

4 December 2019
Dual consent? Donors’ and recipients’ views about involvement in decision-making on the use of embryos created by gamete donation in research

Authors: I. Baía, C. de Freitas, C. Samorinha, V. Provoost and S. Silva

Content type: Research article

2 December 2019
Disability, vulnerability and assisted death: commentary on Tuffrey-Wijne, Curfs, Finlay and Hollins

Authors: Tim Stainton

Content type: Commentary

27 November 2019

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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: Debate

26 June 2005
The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?

Authors: Katie Page

Content type: Research article

20 May 2012
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: Debate

7 October 2014
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: Research article

14 May 2010
Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal

Authors: Bengt Kayser, Alexandre Mauron and Andy Miah

Content type: Debate

29 March 2007

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Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications
Edited by Donna Dickenson, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Michael Morrison

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Extending evidence-based medicine
Edited by Trisha Greenhalgh

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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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The Many Meanings of ‘Quality’ in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Deborah Swinglehurst

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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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Anne Menard, BioMed Central

Manuscript Editor

Cecilia Pennica, BioMed Central

Assistant Editor

Janelle Coore, 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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Allowing food companies to put nutrition claims on their products may run counter to health promotion efforts

05 December 2019
An interview with BMC Public Health Section Editor, Dr Shankar Viswanathan

05 December 2019
Anthelmintic Resistance in Ruminants: Who Cares?

26 November 2019

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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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Reporting of ethical approval and informed consent in clinical research published in leading nursing journals: a retrospective observational study

Experience of oncology residents with death: a qualitative study in Mexico

Are physicians on the same page about do-not-resuscitate? To examine individual physicians’ influence on do-not-resuscitate decision-making: a retrospective and observational study

Dual consent? Donors’ and recipients’ views about involvement in decision-making on the use of embryos created by gamete donation in research

Disability, vulnerability and assisted death: commentary on Tuffrey-Wijne, Curfs, Finlay and Hollins

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

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Allowing food companies to put nutrition claims on their products may run counter to health promotion efforts

An interview with BMC Public Health Section Editor, Dr Shankar Viswanathan

Anthelmintic Resistance in Ruminants: Who Cares?

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