We are entirely satisfied that the investigations performed on the children reported in the Lancet paper had been subjected to appropriate and rigorous ethical scrutiny. Because the nature of the condition affecting child behaviour and gastroenterological symptoms was unknown and required elucidation, the investigation of these children was properly submitted to and fully discussed by the Ethic...

Methods The present study comprised 32 patients, who underwent Endonasal Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy (EEDCR) due to NDO between 2005 and 2009 in the Ear Nose and Throat Clinic Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital, Ministry of Health, and 50 subjects without NDO as the control group. The patients were retrospectively compared. Ethics committee approval was obtained from the th...

Retraction The Editors-in-Chief are retracting this article [1] because the study was not conducted with the appropriate ethical oversight. Contrary to the statement in the article that ethics committee approval was not required, an investigation by the Arcispedale Santa Maria NuovaIRCCS has determined that the study should have been reviewed and approved by an ethics committee. All authors agr...

•Any experimental research reported in the manuscript must have been performed with the approval of an appropriate ethics committee. Please clearly confirm in the Methods section whether or not your study needed ethical approval, and which bodies gave that approval or waived the need where appropriate. Please include the specific name of the ethics committee. Any experimental research on humans...

Research that includes non-human animal experimentation is fundamentally a dilemmatic enterprise. Humans use other animals in research to improve life for their own species. Ethical principles are established to deal with this dilemma. But despite this ethical apparatus, people who in one way or another work with animal experimentation have to interpret and understand the principles from their ...

BACKGROUND Many studies have been published about ethics committees and the clarifications requested about the submitted applications. In Finland, ethics committees require a separate statement on ethical aspects of the research in applications to the ethics committee. However, little is known about how researchers consider the ethical aspects of their own studies. METHODS The data were colle...

This paper was written by Timothy W. Kirk, PhD, and Margaret M. Mahon, PhD, RN, FAAN, on behalf of the Palliative Sedation Task Force of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Ethics Committee. Members of the Palliative Sedation Task Force were Timothy W. Kirk, PhD (Chair), Kathleen Bliss, MSN, RN, CHA, Pamela Dalinis, MA, BSN, RN, Margaret M. Mahon, PhD, RN, FAAN, Martha...

BACKGROUND Publication and outcome reporting bias is often caused by researchers selectively choosing which scientific results and outcomes to publish. This behaviour is ethically significant as it distorts the literature used for future scientific or clinical decision-making. This study investigates the practicalities of using ethics applications submitted to a UK National Health Service (NHS)...

Human research ethics has developed in both theory and practice mostly from experiences in medical research. Human participants, however, are used in a much broader range of research than ethics committees oversee, including both basic and applied research at technical universities. Although mandated in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, non-medical research involving...

Ethics are the moral values of human behavior and the principles which govern these values. The situation becomes challenging for a doctor when he assumes the role of researcher. The doctor-researcher has to serve both the roles and at times the zeal of an investigator has the potential to cloud the morality of the physician inside. It is very important to realize that exploiting the faith of p...