Tag: research ethics
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April 19, 2013
John Lantos, MD weighs in on the SUPPORT study
David Magnus, Ph.D.
John Lantos, MD weighs in on the SUPPORT study. He points out that the work of self-appointed “watch-dogs” such as Public Citizen and the Alliance for Human Research Protection are a danger to bioethics.…
April 18, 2013
NEJM Responses to the support controversy
David Magnus, Ph.D.
The New England Journal of Medicine ‘s web site has the early publication of an editorial about the controversy over the SUPPORT study of oxygen saturation levels in premature infants.…
April 4, 2013
Check out the April 2013 issue of AJOB!
February 19, 2013
"Innovative Treatment" vs Research: Which Is It?
Maurice Bernstein, M.D.
When does a doctor’s treatment of a patient become medical or surgical research? If what the doctor does is a standard and accepted method of therapy using proven medications or surgical techniques and represents nothing novel then at first glance what is occurring cannot be designated as research or can it?…
December 14, 2012
Operation Delirium
Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D.
Joining the long line of examples of concerning human subjects research experiments is a profile in The New Yorker (December 17).…
September 1, 2012
AJOB's September Issue is Here!
This month’s issue features:
- On Moral Medical Repatriation
- Chimera Compulsion: Why Animals And Humans Deserve Better Arguments About Research
- Telecare for the Elderly: Concerns About Privacy, Autonomy, and Isolation
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February 10, 2012
Is Hope a Culprit in Cancer Clinical Trials?
A recent study conducted by Emory University School of Medicine found that therapeutic misconception is alive and well in Phase I cancer research.…
November 3, 2011
November Issue of AJOB is Now Available Online!
This month’s issue of The American Journal of Bioethics is now available online. Research ethics is featured prominently in this issue with Rosamond Rhodes et al arguing for a new category of research risk and an article about the recruitment of research participants.…
October 4, 2011
A Duty to Report Dead Ends?
When an investigational agent is being studied by pharma, is there an ethical responsibility to disclose the findings of that research, even if the agent is no longer being studied or being brought to market?…
June 13, 2011
Captain America: The Next Great Research Ethics Movie?
With Captain America: The First Avenger not due to release in theaters for more than 6 weeks, the hype is pretty astonishing.…