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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 13, 2013

Study of Babies Did Not Disclose Risks, U.S. Finds

[New York Time] A federal agency has found that a number of prestigious universities failed to tell more than a thousand families in a government-financed study of oxygen levels for extremely premature babies that the risks could include increased ch...
April 12, 2013

OHRP throws a wet blanket on comparative effectiveness research

David Magnus, PhD

When we go to the doctor and they recommend a treatment, we like to believe that there is good evidence that it is the best treatment available.…

April 4, 2013

Check out the April 2013 issue of AJOB!

DOES CONSENT BIAS RESEARCH? 

SICKLE CELL AND THE “DIFFICULT PATIENT” CONUNDRUM…

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?…

January 7, 2013

2013 ASBH Call for Proposals

The 2013 ASBH Call for Proposals is now open.  The 2013 ASBH conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia.  Details regarding the call can be found on the ASBH homepage. There you will find a link to the abstract submission site as well as a ...
September 1, 2012

AJOB's September Issue is Here!

This month’s issue features:

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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.…

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?…

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Published Articles (60)

AJOB Neuroscience: Volume 4 Issue 2 - May 2013

Minimizing Harm in Psychiatric Treatment and Research Robert L. Sadoff

AJOB Primary Research: Volume 4 Issue 2 - Apr 2013

Knowledge of and Training in Research Ethics in an African Health Research Community Omokhoa Adedayo Adeleye & Temidayo Olusade Ogundiran

AJOB Primary Research: Volume 4 Issue 2 - Apr 2013

Factors That Affect Integrity of Authorship of Scientific Meeting Abstracts John Lynch, Jane E. Strasser, Christopher J. Lindsell & Joel Tsevat

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 13 Issue 4 - Apr 2013

Can Informed Consent Go Too Far? Balancing Consent and Public Benefit in Research Lauren C. Milner & David Magnus

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 13 Issue 1 - Jan 2013

Assessing ESCROs: Yesterday and Tomorrow Henry T. Greely

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 12 Issue 11 - Nov 2012

Evaluating the Capacity of Theories of Justice to Serve as a Justice Framework for International Clinical Research Bridget Pratt, Deborah Zion & Bebe Loff

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 12 Issue 11 - Nov 2012

Opening the Black Box of Ethics Policy Work: Evaluating a Covert Practice Andrea Frolic, Katherine Drolet, Kim Bryanton, Carole Caron, Cynthia Cupido, Barb Flaherty, Sylvia Fung & Lori McCall

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 12 Issue 6 - Jun 2012

How Good Is “Good Enough”? The Case for Varying Standards of Evidence According to Need for New Interventions in HIV Prevention Bridget Haire, John Kaldor & Christopher FC Jordens

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 12 - Dec 2011

Review of "Brain, Body and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face" by Walter Glannon William Winslade

American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 10 - Oct 2011

Criteria for Authorship in Bioethics David B. Resnik

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News (288)

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 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.

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.

December 13, 2012 5:17 pm

Research Misconduct On the Rise (Clinical Oncology News)

Outright fraud rare, but selective analyses and reporting ‘highly prevalent’.  The fuzzy boundary between removing noise from results and biasing them toward a desired outcome might be unknowingly crossed by many researchers.

October 22, 2012 5:06 pm

World Science Academies Release Report to Promote Research Integrity (IAP)

A new report on responsible science has been issued by the InterAcademy Council and the IAP – the global network of science academies. The report is the first product of the IAC and IAP’s project on scientific integrity, “initiated in response to several major trends reshaping the research enterprise, including the increasingly global and interdisciplinary nature of science, its heightened role in policy debates, and the continued emergence of high-profile cases of irresponsible research behavior in many countries.” The report “identifies fundamental values and principles that researchers should incorporate into every part of the process, from developing a research plan to reporting results and communicating with policymakers and the public.”

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