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- 1From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedBackground Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is expected to help find the elusive, causative genetic defects associated with Bipolar Disorder (BD). This article identifies the importance of NGS and further analyses the...
- 2From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Pediatrics ethics education should enhance medical students' skills to deal with ethical problems that may arise in the different settings of care. This study aimed to analyze the ethical problems...
- 3From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Financial relationships between physicians and industry are extensive and public reporting of industry payments to physicians is now occurring. Our objectives were to describe physician recipients of large...
- 4From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Previous studies have found that the decision-making process for stored unused frozen embryos involves much emotional burden influenced by socio-cultural factors. This study aims to ascertain how Japanese...
- 5From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Seeking consent for genetic and genomic research can be challenging, particularly in populations with low literacy levels, and in emergency situations. All of these factors were relevant to the MalariaGEN...
- 6From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Universities in Cameroon are playing an active part in HIV/AIDS research and much of this research is carried out by students, usually for the purpose of a dissertation/thesis. Student theses/dissertations...
- 7From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The intervention reported in this paper was a follow up to an empirical study conducted in Malawi with the aim of assessing trial participants' understanding of randomisation, double-blinding and placebo...
- 8From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBack ground Empirical surveys about medical futility are scarce relative to its theoretical assumptions. We aimed to evaluate the difference of attitudes between laypeople and physicians towards the issue. Methods...
- 9From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Denmark has implemented a comprehensive, nationwide pharmaceutical information system, and this system has been evaluated by the Danish Council of Ethics. The system can be seen as an exemplar of a...
- 10From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Cancer patients are at risk of developing blood clots in their veins - venous thromboembolism (VTE) - which often takes the form of a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis. The risk increases with...
- 11From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Adherence to ethical principles in clinical research and practice is becoming topical issue in China, where the prevalence of mental illness is rising, but treatment facilities remain underdeveloped. This...
- 12From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Even though we are now well into the 21st century and notwithstanding all the abuse to individuals involved in clinical studies that has been documented throughout History, fundamental ethical principles...
- 13From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Professional health care practice should be based on ethical decisions and actions. When there are competing ethical standards or principles, one must choose between two or more competing options. This...
- 14From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Many studies have been published about ethics committees and the clarifications requested about the submitted applications. In Finland, ethics committees require a separate statement on ethical aspects of...
- 15From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Non-therapeutic trials in which terminally ill cancer patients are asked to undergo procedures such as biopsies or venipunctures for research purposes, have become increasingly important to learn more...
- 16From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The requirement that animals be used in research and testing in order to protect humans was formalized in the Nuremberg Code and subsequent national and international laws, codes, and declarations....
- 17From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Following passage of the Patient Self Determination Act in 1990, health care institutions that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding are required to inform patients of their right to make their health care...
- 18From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Research is fundamental to improving the quality of health care. The need for regulation of research is clear. However, the bureaucratic complexity of research governance has raised concerns that the...
- 19From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Posthumous organ procurement is hindered by the consenting process. Several consenting systems have been proposed. There is limited information on public relative attitudes towards various consenting...
- 20From: BMC Medical Ethics. (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground There is general consensus internationally that unfair distribution of the benefits of research is exploitative and should be avoided or reduced. However, what constitutes fair benefits, and the exact...