The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (the Bioethics Commission) recently published a report, Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research, addressing the ethical considerations in conducting clinical trials…
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03/20/2013
What are Medical Countermeasures?
02/19/2013
What’s next for the Commission?
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues published a report on whole genome sequencing, Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing, in October 2012. At its January meeting in Miami, Fla. the Commission finalized its work on a…
01/14/2013
Dennis Thompson, Ph.D. to address Commission
As the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues gathers in Miami to continue its discussion of the development of an ethical framework around the issue of pediatric medical countermeasures, Commission members will hear from additional…
01/14/2013
Tom Beauchamp, Ph.D. to address Commission
Tom Beauchamp, Ph.D., an invited speaker at the 12th meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, has been a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University…