[Mortality of young people with cancer: clinical-epidemiological characteristics of death and emerging ethical aspects].

Objective: To describe the epidemiological, clinical, and ethical aspects of the mortality of young people with cancer in Mexico.

Methods: 63 medical records from 14 to 18-year-old patients, with cancer, who died between 2011 and 2014, were reviewed to obtain epidemiological and clinical characteristics of their death. The study sites were three tertiary referral hospitals in Mexico City.

[Ethics committees in the experience of the IMSS: a Latin American instance].

Background: The aim of this article is to identify the current state of hospital bioethics committees and local research ethics committees of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS).

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed that included all hospitals of the IMSS (N = 262). Two self-administered questionnaires were e-mailed between october and november 2014 to the hospital directors: one for hospital bioethics committees and another for local research ethics committees.