OBJECTIVE To perform an outcome-based evaluation of the diploma programme initiated in 2006 at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture. METHODS The broad based evaluation was done at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, from July 2011 to June 2012 and comprised pass out batches from 2006 to 2010. Outcome logic model was appl...

Throughout many parts of the world, biomedical research ethics is based on a core body of well-established norms, rules, and principles, including the Declaration of Helsinki, the Nuremberg Code, the Belmont Report, and the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (1). The overarching goal of these codifications is to protect people against harms arising...

28 We examined developmental programming studies that reported sex-specific effects 29 published between 2012 and 2014, and examined whether the authors reported a 30 statistical approach to explicitly test whether the effect of treatment differed between the 31 sexes, e.g., a sex by treatment interaction term. Less than half of the studies that reported 32 sex-specific effects described explic...

BACKGROUND Research ethics consultation programs are being established with a goal of addressing the ethical, societal, and policy considerations associated with biomedical research. A number of these programs are modelled after clinical ethics consultation services that began to be institutionalized in the 1980s. Our objective was to determine biomedical science researchers' perceived need for...

BACKGROUND This case study of donor human milk banking and the ethics that govern interested parties is the first time the ethics of donor milk banking has been explored. METHODS AND RESULTS Two different models of ethics and their direct impact on donor milk banking are examined: biomedical ethics and public health ethics. How these models and principles affect different aspects of donor hum...