ETHICS, FUNDING AND ALCOHOL RESEARCH

Ethics in alcohol research and publishing.

Much has been, and continues to be, written about ethical issues in scientific publishing and biomed-ical and other research. In the case of publishing, the ethical issues involved apply to all disciplines of science and medicine, the discussion of which in various scientific and medical journals has for more than a decade now been prompted by cases of scientific misconduct on the part of some ...

Health experts reject industry-backed funding for alcohol research.

TO THE EDITOR: The federal government is to be applauded for its decision to reintroduce the “alcopops” tax Bill to Parliament and to try to retain the $300 million raised so far for expenditure on services, programs and research to reduce alcoholrelated harm in Australia. The alcopops tax was paid by consumers in the form of higher retail prices, which will fall dramatically if the government ...

Which research is to be believed? The ethics of industrial funding of orthopaedic research.

Research and Collaboration Overview of Institut Pasteur International Network: A Bibliometric Approach toward Research Funding Decisions

Background Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN), which includes 32 research institutes around the world, is a network of research and expertise to fight against infectious diseases. A scientometric approach was applied to describe research and collaboration activities of IPIN.   Methods Publications were identified using a manual search of IPIN member addresses in Science Citation Inde...

GLOBAL MEDICAL ETHICS Ethical issues in funding orphan drug research and development

This essay outlines the moral dilemma of funding orphan drug research and development. To date, ethical aspects of priority setting for research funding have not been an issue of discussion in the bioethics debate. Conflicting moral obligations of beneficence and distributive justice appear to demand very different levels of funding for orphan drug research. The two types of orphan disease, rar...