Tags: informed consent
Blog Posts (3)
Apr 10, 2008
Accepting placebos
Over at the Neuroethics and Law Blog, Adam Kolber argues that we should embrace the use of placebos:
Should a doctor stop prescribing antidepressants to a particular patient when the doctor believes that antidepressants will be no better for the patient than placebos?
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Jan 31, 2008
A comment from Paul Gelsinger on gene therapy and informed consent
In a guest post earlier this week Alan Milstein, the attorney who represented Jesse Gelsinger’s family, wrote about his reaction to a recent editorial by James Wilson about gene therapy and informed consent in the journal Human Gene Therapy.…
Jan 29, 2008
On gene therapy and informed consent
By Alan Milstein
Januarys issue of Human Gene Therapy offers some intriguing commentary on the issue of informed consent in gene transfer trials.…
Published Articles (21)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 12 - Dec 2011
Forfeited Health: Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "What's Wrong With Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer?" Stewart Justman
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 12 - Dec 2011
What's Wrong With Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer? Stewart Justman
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 8 - Aug 2011
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ?The Concept of Voluntary Consent" Robert M. Nelson
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 8 - Aug 2010
Patient Willingness to Be Seen by Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Residents in the Emergency Department: Does the Presumption of Assent Have an Empirical Basis? Gregory L Larkin
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 10 - Oct 2010
MOST CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLE: Rethinking Research Ethics Rosamond Rhodes
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 10 - Oct 2010
Invited Commentary: ?Rethinking Research Ethics,? Again: Casuistry, Phronesis, and the Continuing Challenges of Human Research Greg Koski
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 7 - Jul 2010
Review of The Ethics of Consent, eds. Franklin G. Miller and Alan Wertheimer Jessica W. Berg
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 2 - Feb 2010
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ?Returning to History: The Ethics of Researching Asylum Seeker Health in Australia? Deborah Zion
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 2 - Feb 2010
Returning to History: The Ethics of Researching Asylum Seeker Health in Australia Deborah Zion
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 9 Issue 2 - Feb 2009
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ?Must Research Participants Understand Randomization?? David Wendler
News (5)
May 04, 2012
Better ethics education needed in community-based research (Phys.org)
A growing number of health research programs are collaborating with community groups to conduct research. The groups help recruit study participants, obtain informed consent, collect data and provide input on study design and procedures. But existing programs that educate researchers, community groups and institutional review boards about research ethics “fail to meet the needs of all groups that have a role in community-engaged research,” according to an article in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.
Apr 10, 2012
'Benefits and burdens' of participating in clinical research trials (News-Medical)
In one of the first studies of its kind, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing researchers have identified what cancer patients consider the “benefits and burdens” of participating in clinical research trials. From their findings, the researchers developed a model of the five elements of decision-making (physical, psychological, economic, familial, and social) that patients with cancer use to determine whether to participate or remain in a clinical trial.
Apr 05, 2012
Your data are not a product (Nature)
The Portable Legal Consent for Common Genomics Research (PLC-CGR) is an experimental bioethics protocol that provides maximum utility to researchers who agree to its terms and protection for the de-identified personal and genomic data volunteered by informed research subjects. Data and resulting publications from this protocol are equally available to all academic, nonprofit and commercial competitors, so that intellectual property claims should arise only on new discoveries based on the data.
Apr 02, 2012
Grady urges reform in human research (Duke Chronicle)
The way clinical studies inform patients about what they are getting involved with works no better in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world, one expert said. Patients from both developed and third world countries exhibited a similar lack of understanding of the medical research process, which limits their discernible rights, said Christine Grady, the chief of the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
Mar 02, 2012
International voice in human subjects protections named NIH Clinical Center bioethics chief (NIH)
Christine Grady, Ph.D., was recently named chief of the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. Grady has served as deputy director of the department since 1996 and served as acting chief since September 2011. Her research focuses on clinical research subject recruitment, incentives, vulnerability, consents, and international research ethics. #bioethics #researchethics