Tag: research ethics
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May 14, 2013 4:29 pm
Hospital probes E German 'human guinea pig' drug tests
A top Berlin hospital plans to investigate the conduct of drug trials in the former East Germany amid allegations that some patients were used as human guinea pigs.
April 25, 2013 5:14 pm
How the feds got it wrong in their critique of a children's study
Comparative effectiveness research tries to research whether one standardly used treatment is better than the others.. Yet this is exactly the kind of research that was slammed by government watchdogs and mauled in the press.
April 3, 2013 2:44 pm
Wisconsin scientist accused of stealing cancer drug and research data to study them in China
Hua Jun Zhao, a researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is charged with espionage after prosecutors say he stole details of a cancer-fighting compound that he wanted to share with China.
February 22, 2013 12:41 pm
Families Push for New Ways to Research Rare Diseases (WSJ)
Parents with children who have rare and debilitating diseases are pushing to change how researchers develop medicines to treat the conditions. The parents want different scientists researching the diseases to share data about the patients so the children won’t need to participate in so many studies.
February 11, 2013 2:51 pm
Mutant virus sparks bioethics debate (The Star)
In a storage facility in the Netherlands, a mutant virus engineered into existence has been locked in a freezer for more than a year, unaware of the global debate swirling around it. This strain has sparked one of the most inflamed bioethics debates in recent memory.
January 24, 2013 1:30 pm
Shifting Roles, Shifting Research: Collaborative Genetic Studies with Indigenous Communities (SACNAS)
Members of the Havasupai Tribe gave permission for Arizona State University to collect blood samples in order to study the diabetes epidemic in their community. More than a decade later, the tribe learned that their samples had been shared with other research teams without their permission.
January 18, 2013 11:30 am
A Little Digging Unmasks DNA Donor Names (The Wall Street Journal)
Genetic information stored anonymously in databases doesn’t always stay that way, a new study revealed, raising concern about how much privacy participants in research projects can expect in the Internet era.
January 15, 2013 2:25 pm
Experts Aim to Redefine Healthcare and Research Ethics (Science Daily)
In what they acknowledge as a seismic shift in the ethical foundation of medical research, practice and policy, a prominent group of interdisciplinary healthcare experts rejects an ethical paradigm that has guided the American system since the 1970s and calls for morally obligatory participation in a “learning healthcare system” more in step with the digital age.
January 10, 2013 1:38 pm
Penn Medicine Launches Nation's First Program for the Study of Ethical and Policy Issues in Neurodegenerative Diseases (Penn Medicine News)
The new program will support research, education and training to identify and address the ethical and policy implications of advances in the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including translation to clinical practice.
December 21, 2012 2:46 pm
Oops! 5 Retracted Science Studies of 2012 (LiveScience.com)
It seems that an increasing number of scientific studies are just plain wrong and are ultimately retracted. Worse, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that the majority of retractions are due to some type of misconduct.