Medical Ethics

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BIOMEDICAL JOURNAL OF ERMC EASTERN EUROPEAN

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Issue 2, 2026

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Information Security in Healthcare: Modern Threats and Protection Methods

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Issue 1, 2025

Topic Amendments and additions to the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association "Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects"

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Issue 2, 2025

Topic Bioethical problems of quantum computing

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Issue 3, 2025

Topic Space biology, space medicine and space psychologyin the context of "human sciences"

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Issue 4, 2025

Topic Ethical aspects and prospects of space exploration and exploitation

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Issue 1, 2026

Topic The ethics of Matvey Yakovlevich Mudrov

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Gabidullina LF, Kotlovsky MYu

This study is relevant due to the need to balance child protection and respect for the family, while mitigating the risks of stigmatization and confidentiality breaches during cooperation between agencies. This study aims to identify the ethical dilemmas that arise while supporting children at risk of social orphanhood and to provide recommendations for improving these support tendencies. The research methods include analyzing regional practices, algorithms of interaction between agencies, the work of specialized commissions and councils, and the legal and regulatory framework, which includes the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Russian social service standards. According to the results, the most ethical and effective methods rely on minimal intervention, family partnership, and transparent communication. Collaborative visits by specialists and parents, interdisciplinary consultations, and adapted methodologies for considering the child’s views are effective. Researchers used data from the Yaroslavl region to find the major ethical issues such as treating informed consent as a mere formality, risk of data leakage in central databases, ignoring the life experience of families, and treating a child’s opinion without deep care.

Received: 2026-06-25

Published online: 2026-08-23

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2026.023

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Kuznetsova EB

This article explores how learning a foreign language helps medical students develop soft skills. The author proves it is necessary to move beyond rote vocabulary learning and shows that a foreign language creates a distant environment for developing empathy, tact and the ability to conduct a delicate professional dialogue. The article examines three useful activity types: ethical dilemma case studies, role-play activities, and debates. A system for their integration into the educational process is proposed, and the teacher’s role as a guide for ethical communication is discu

Received: 2026-06-04

Published online: 2026-08-22

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2026.022

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Suryaninova JA, Berngardt OV

The article explores the ethical issues arising when teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) to medical students from India at Russian medical universities. The issues of intercultural communication, ethical training, medical ethics concepts for foreign medical students, and ethical challenges faced by a RFL teacher in a diverse classroom are reviewed. The role of language standards, language mediation, and associated moral and ethical challenges is shown. The ways to solve these ethical issues based on scientific literature and teaching practice at Yaroslavl State Medical University are suggested.

Received: 2026-06-26

Published online: 2026-08-20

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2026.021

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Zheltkevich OV

The article comprehensively analyzes the attitudes of pharmaceutical workers to own labels (OLs) of pharmacy chains, identifies motivation and demotivation factors in promotion of OLs, and assesses the relevance of OLs by product categories and ethics of established sales practices. As a result of an anonymous survey of pharmaceutical workers, a rating was formed on the relevance of presenting OLs in various product categories of the pharmacy range. Barriers, motivators for promotion for pharmaceutical workers when working with OLs, and tools for building customer trust when choosing OLs have been identified. The phenomenon of systemic cognitive dissonance has been established. According to it, professional doubts are suppressed by financial incentives, which looks like a conflict of interests. A model of transition from bonus promotion to an expert-oriented system is proposed.

Received: 2026-06-16

Published online: 2026-08-14

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2026.018

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Demarina SM, Usolkin AA, Balashova YD, Tikhomirova SV

This review examines the ethical and legal implications of creating pharmacogenetic passports during the preconception (prior to conception) and prenatal (intrauterine) periods. The work is based on a methodological differentiation between the stages of genetic testing.. Preconception screening aims to assess carrier status in prospective parents and ensure their reproductive freedom, while prenatal testing provides fetus-related data, raising bioethical issues regarding the protection of interests and self-determination of the future child. The technologies of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), and prospects for intrauterine pharmacotherapy in severe congenital abnormalities are discussed. Special attention is given to ethical conflicts such as a conflict between the right to health and the right not to know, limits of parental proxy, and risk of genetic stigmatization. Normative approaches are suggested to address the identified ethical tensions (minimum intervention, clinical benefit, and deferred choice). The analysis of the Russian legislation and international instruments (Oviedo Convention, the GINA Act, the GDPR) yields recommendations for the healthcare system and legal regulation.

Received: 2026-03-19

Published online: 2026-05-23

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2026.012

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Kulikova OA, Lavrenteva LI

The paper explores the role of professional ethics in establishing moral, value-based foundations, and modern pharmacy guidelines. The topic is relevant because compliance with ethical and deontological principles is an essential component of the pharmacy profession that ensures provision of high-quality pharmaceutical care as the primary task. Taking into account the requirements of regulatory documents and professional standards, the objective necessity of including a specialized discipline in 33.02.01 Pharmacy education has been reviewed. This discipline introduces students to the specifics of pharmaceutical ethics and deontology. The experience of developing and implementing the discipline of Ethics and Deontology of a Pharmacist at Yaroslavl State Medical University is described, its purpose and objectives are formulated, the topics of training sessions and approaches to their implementation are shown. The necessity of applying a practice-based approach to teaching the discipline is emphasized in order to train highly moral and socially responsible specialists who are deeply aware of their professional role in society.

Received: 2026-02-26

Published online: 2026-03-17

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2026.004

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