Rogers proposes commission on research ethics

Varmus proposes guidelines for stem cell research.

After almost a year of discussion and debate, Harold Varmus, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has proposed guidelines under which federally funded scientists can pursue research using human pluripotent stem cells. The issue has been politically charged. Conservative members of Congress have gone on record against the use of the cell cultures because they believe it viola...

Opinion for the Ethics Commission Patient Abandonment

According to Dictionary.com (2011), abandon is defined as “to leave completely and finally.” A legal definition clarifies what abandonment means in the health care setting: “withdrawal from treatment of a patient without giving reasonable notice or providing a competent replacement” (USLegal.com, n.d.). One should note that according to this second definition, a health care professional can ind...

Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

There are an increasing number of medical research studies involving children, including many long-term birth cohort studies. Involving children raises many issues, and little is known about children’s own views. This study explored children’s views (N = 5,851) on participation in a long-term screening study for type 1 diabetes. The results show that children 10 to 13 years of age have in gener...

European Commission Dg Research

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