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Featured collection: Translation in healthcare

This article collection emerges from the ‘Translation in Healthcare: Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies’ conference 2015 hosted by the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford. Here a wide range of voices were brought together to discuss and think more deeply about the technological, legal, ethical, and social challenges raised by new technologies in healthcare. 

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   Familiar ethical issues amplified: how members of research ethics committees describe ethical distinctions between disaster and non-disaster research

   Catherine M. Tansey, James Anderson, Renaud F. Boulanger, Lisa Eckenwiler, John Pringle, Lisa Schwartz and Matthew Hunt

   Published on: 28 June 2017
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   Ethics review of studies during public health emergencies - the experience of the WHO ethics review committee during the Ebola virus disease epidemic

   Emilie Alirol, Annette C. Kuesel, Maria Magdalena Guraiib, Vânia de la Fuente-Núñez, Abha Saxena and Melba F. Gomes

   Published on: 26 June 2017

   The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:45
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   Comparative effectiveness research: what to do when experts disagree about risks

   Reidar K. Lie, Francis K.L. Chan, Christine Grady, Vincent H. Ng and David Wendler

   Published on: 19 June 2017
5. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Development of a consensus operational definition of child assent for research

   Alan R. Tait and Michael E. Geisser

   Published on: 9 June 2017
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   Are advance directives helpful for good end of life decision making: a cross sectional survey of health professionals

   Eimantas Peicius, Aurelija Blazeviciene and Raimondas Kaminskas

   Published on: 5 June 2017

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