NIH ethics office clamps down on Duke...

Article Abstract:

Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) must undertake several remedial measures after the federal government closed down all its research involving human subjects. The ban was later lifted, but the centre will have to re-educate panel members and researchers on regulations protecting human welfare in government funded research. Its Institutional Review Board (IRB) will have to review 274 clinical trials after the Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) cited 20 problems.

Research, Medical centers, Clinical trials

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Ethics of private panels comes under scrutiny

Article Abstract:

Private Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) have been attacked at a congressional hearing in the US, for being commercially motivated and more likely to approve questionable experimental protocols. However the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claims that private IRBs are very similar to not-for-profit IRBs created by research hospitals and universities. Private IRBs are mostly used in late-stage clinical trials by drugs producers, and critics believe there should be more universal research regulation.

Pharmaceutical research

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Ethics worries over execution twist to Internet's 'visible man'

Article Abstract:

The use of digital images of a prisoner executed by a lethal injection, who donated his body to science, in the Internet has raised ethical issues. Certain ethic specialists question the competency of prisoners to give informed consent and the validity of the consent. However, other specialists consider the use of the body as ethical, provided the prisoner gives the consent voluntarily. The relatives and the lawyer of the prisoner support the donation and have dismissed all criticism.

Internet, Reports, Images, Optical, Optical images

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