May 21, 2013
In his April 18 Bioethics Forum article, John Lantos criticized the findings of the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protections that the conduct of the Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial (S...
May 13, 2013
Three years before beginning medical school, I got off a bus in Granada, Spain and met the family I would be living with for four months. My host parents, Carmen and Monolo, introduced themselves and asked how old I was, where I was from, and how many ...
May 1, 2013
My sister called: “Get the orange card out of my wallet on the table. We need to call the study people.”
In July, we got the news – Dad’s colon cancer was back. He had a six-month prognosis, so we began the planning: a big 95th birthday party,...
April 24, 2013
Over the past month, a petition asking the governor of Minnesota to investigate a research scandal at the University of Minnesota has been steadily gathering momentum. The scandal in question originated in 2004 with the suicide of Dan Markingson in a...
