News articles tagged with 'ethical'
Standard retreatment regimen for TB is inadequate
— 16 Mar 2011 13:37 | HealthThe standard retreatment regimen for tuberculosis has low treatment response rates and is associated with poor long term outcomes in certain subgroups of patients, particularly those…
IRBs could use pre-clinical data better
— 9 Mar 2011 19:08 | HealthIn this week's PLoS Medicine, Jonathan Kimmelman from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and Alex London from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA argue that ethical reviewers…
Mayo Clinic review of ethical decision making with end-of-life care
— 2 Oct 2010 12:26 | HealthIn a review article published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic physicians differentiate the ethical and legal permissibility of withholding or withdrawing…
Scholar calls for a new legal, ethical framework for research with human tissue specimens
— 22 Jun 2010 11:19 | HealthA lawyer and researcher at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics says a new legal and ethical framework needs to be placed around the donation and banking of human biological…
Virtual humans appear to influence ethical decisions in gender-specific ways
— 14 May 2010 12:48 | TechnologyVirtual humans are increasingly taking on roles that were once reserved for real humans. A study by researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue…
Animals' right to privacy denied by documentary-makers
— 30 Apr 2010 08:04 | EnvironmentAnimals' right to privacy is being denied by makers of television wildlife documentaries according to new research…
New ethical guidelines needed for dementia research
— 30 Mar 2010 09:59 | HealthHow do we handle the ethical dilemmas of research on adults who can't give their informed consent? In a recent article in the journal Bioethics, ethicist Stefan Eriksson proposes a…
Genome-wide association studies in developing countries raise important new ethical issues
— 24 Nov 2009 13:00 | HealthTypically conducted in richer, developed countries but now increasingly done in the developing world, genome wide association (GWA) studies raise a host of ethical issues that must…
Ethics review of research in the context of humanitarian relief work
— 28 Jul 2009 10:15 | HealthTwo articles published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine highlight the need for, and the practicalities of, getting appropriate ethical review of research done in the…
Online ethics and the bloggers' code revealed
— 26 Jun 2009 10:54 | TechnologyWhatever their reason for posting their thoughts online, bloggers have a shared ethical code, according to a recent study published in the journal New Media Society, published by SAGE.…