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Students’ medical ethics rounds: a combinatorial program for medical ethics education

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2016
It has long been a common goal for both medical educators and ethicists to develop effective methods or programs for medical ethics education.
Maani Beigy   +6 more
doaj  

Entropy as the main justification for research in medical ethics

open access: yesPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2022
Ethics is an unconventional field of research for a surgeon, as ethics in surgery owns several specificities and surgery is considered an aggressive specialty. Therefore, the interest of research in medical ethics is sometimes unclear.
Alban Zarzavadjian Le Bian   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The independence of medical ethics [PDF]

open access: yesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2018
This paper discusses the relation between medical ethics and general moral theory, the argument being that medical ethics is best seen as independent from general moral theory. According to this independence thesis, here explicated in terms of what is called a disunitarian stance, the very idea of applied ethics, which is often seen as underlying ...
openaire   +5 more sources

Multi-disciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper reviews the currently rapid changes in research ethics governance affecting many kinds of social research. Arguments for and against single‐discipline and multidisciplinary research ethics committees will be considered, with examples of how ...
Alderson, Priscilla, Morrow, Virginia
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TRPM8 levels determine tumor vulnerability to channel agonists

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
TRPM8 is a Ca2+ permissive channel. Regardless of the amount of its transcript, high levels of TRPM8 protein mark different tumors, including prostate, breast, colorectal, and lung carcinomas. Targeting TRPM8 with channel agonists stimulates inward calcium currents followed by emptying of cytosolic Ca2+ stores in cancer cells.
Alessandro Alaimo   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

MORALITY, MEDICAL ETHICS AND MEDICAL LAW

open access: yesУкраїнський стоматологічний альманах, 2018
The purpose of the publication of the article is to remind of legal relations between professional health workers and the subject of this relationship (patient), based on the rules of morality and law for patient (health law).
P. I. Yatsenko
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The anticancer effect of the HDAC inhibitor belinostat is enhanced by inhibitors of Bcl‐xL or Mcl‐1 in ovarian cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The pan‐HDAC inhibitor belinostat increases the expression of the pro‐apoptotic proteins Bim, Puma, and Noxa and induces apoptosis in ovarian cancer cell lines and patient‐derived tumor organoids when used at high concentrations. Moreover, inhibiting the anti‐apoptotic proteins Bcl‐xL or Mcl‐1 sensitizes these preclinical models to the cytotoxic effect
Cécilia Thomine   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advance care planning in Norwegian nursing homes – limited awareness of the residents’ preferences and values? A qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2019
Background 52% of all deaths in Norway occur in nursing homes. Still advance care planning (ACP) is scarce and heterogeneous. To improve the implementation and practice of ACP in nursing homes, knowledge about health care professionals’ views on ACP is ...
Lisbeth Thoresen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

What is a good health check? An interview study of health check providers’ views and practices

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2017
Background Health checks identify (risk factors for) disease in people without symptoms. They may be offered by the government through population screenings and by other providers to individual users as ‘personal health checks’.
Yrrah H. Stol   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Voluntary in quotation marks”: a conceptual model of psychological pressure in mental healthcare based on a grounded theory analysis of interviews with service users

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background Psychological pressure refers to communicative strategies used by professionals and informal caregivers to influence the decision-making of service users and improve their adherence to recommended treatment or social rules.
Sarah Potthoff   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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