CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of BMC Palliative Care would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 12 (2013).

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of BMC Medical Ethics would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 16 (2015).

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of BMC Palliative Care would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 11 (2012).

A major barrier to repurposing routinely collected data for clinical research is the heterogeneity of healthcare information systems. Electronic Health Record for Clinical Research (EHR4CR) is a European project designed to improve the efficiency of conducting clinical trials. We propose an initial architecture of the EHR4CR Semantic Interoperability Framework using Semantic Web technologies. W...

INTRODUCTION I was pleased to read and am now pleased to respond to the commentaries byMinssen and Schwartz1 and byThambisetty2 on my articleDolly andAlice.3 Each of these commentaries offers a welcome comparative perspective to the doctrinal quandaries that I initially pointed out, indicating some prescription for the American patent eligibility problem based upon the parallel European experie...

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of BMC Dermatology would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed their time to the journal in Volume 15 (2015).

When compared with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005, the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 seems an outlier. It authorises compulsory treatment of mental disorders on the basis of P's risks. English law, therefore, discriminates between mental and physical disorders. Following the UK's ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the MHA probably also violates ...