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Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

... "the repetition of clinical trials raises serious ethical questions, since it would imply withholding medici...icines in this way this would pass the scrutiny of ethical review committees, which renders it de facto impossible for generic companies to repeat the clinical...

'single–parent' stem cells to replace adult mice organ

...a viable embryo in the process also avoids certain ethical issues that currently surround embryonic stem cell science." McLaughlin and his colleagues report their findings in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Genes & Development. "While previous research has approached the possibility of using a woman's e...

Cloning From Mice Hair Follicle Stem Cell

...nt currently holds good only in mice. There are no ethical issues regarding mice stem cells and procurement of such cells is generally trouble-free. Till date many animals have been cloned but the procedure still needs a lot of refining. JYT...

Doctors’ Own Fear of Death Linked to Hastening Death of Very Sick Newborn

...d. The doctors were asked questions about their ethical practice and to complete the Multidimensional Fear...e neonatologists’ personal fear of death and their ethical practice. Doctors who said they were not prepared to hasten death had significantly less fear of t...

European Medical Research Still Ignoring Women

...ics committee to ensure that it complies with good ethical practice and is of sufficient quality. The authors found a great deal of variation in the regulations governing the committees they assessed. Some were governed locally; others nationally. As to the gender make-up of the committees, all of them h...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

...ussed before her stroke. As with all knowledge, ethical aspects have assumed an important criterion in the...ology that needs to be examined is ultrasound. The ethical questions involved here are as grave as the questions weighed in the field of human cloning. The ...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

... cause of great concern due to its socio-economic, ethical and medico-legal overtones. In the city of Chenn... ‘hot spots’, besides defining the line between an ethical transplant and an exploitative one. These activists also hope to reform national and internation...

Royal College Issues Revised Guidelines for Face Transplantation

...al transplantation—including the psychological and ethical aspects// of the controversial procedure—a Working...ation as well as a very considerable debate on the ethical aspects of the procedure." The new report states, "[T]he working party now accepts its inevitability...

Uterus Transplant- A Future Reality

...egnant. // The medical adventure is not without ethical controversies and technical difficulties though. ...he public finds itself once again caught up in the ethical dilemma of whether such surgeries should be allowed, transplant experts say that developing the surg...

One-time Melanoma Screening Appears to Be Cost-effective for Elderly People

...procedures cannot be done for either logistical or ethical reasons, the authors write. "Using this method, interventions in the United States are generally considered cost-effective at less than $50,000 per quality-adjusted life year gained or less than $100,000 per quality-adjusted life year gained," they c...

New Source of Stem Cells Discovered

...that which will lend much cheer to those who raise ethical concerns against stem cell research//. Stem cells are cells capable of regenerating into just about any type of cell that could develop into any type of tissue or organ. Hence their invaluable use in the research that is concerned with finding a c...

More Americans Die Due To Side Effects From Prescription Drugs Every Year: Report

...nic M.D.-J.D. program. The legal, regulatory and ethical issues surrounding personalized medicine, or pharmacogenomics, is the focus of a March 2 conference at the College of Law. It is defined as using information about a person’s genetic makeup to tailor strategies for the detection, treatment or prevent...

Refusal of Surgery for Smokers – To Be or Not to Be

...tients to stop smoking, it is both responsible and ethical to implement a policy that those unwilling or unable to stop should have low priority for, or be excluded from, certain elective procedures. "Doctors should certainly inform patients that they might reduce their risks of post-surgical complications ...

Brain-Damaged Girl Frozen in Time to Remain Child-Sized Forever

...or publishing the case and helping to ‘advance our ethical dialogue’ on the topic. Brosco added: ‘This is a t...at they can be cared for properly.’ However, the ethical row is likely to deepen as the Seattle doctors, led by Daniel Gunther, say they are considering othe...

Sway Schizophrenics With Incentives to Avail Regular Treatment

... patients. Many eyebrows were raised regarding the ethical aspect of such a move. In the study to examine the benefits of such a strategy, five outreach mental health patients in east London who had a history of irregular treatment were given incentives for availing consistent treatment. Four of them bene...

Cyanide Poisoning? Reach For Cyanokit

...dies to be made on animals when they do not ensure ethical or credible safety for humans. This drug kit has been used on humans in France for more than a decade, where it has been used to treat cyanide poisoning caused by smoke inhalation. The drug has minimal side effects as reported by the U.S. study. ...

New Jersey Decides to Support $500 M Stem Cell Research

... lure beneficial funds. Enmeshed in a tangle of ethical and moral concerns and doubts regarding borrowing, the state finally legalized the research in 2004, being only the second in US to do so. Stem cell research has several positive spin offs – It could lead to the cure of diabetes, cancer and other dis...

Preserving Fertility for Child Cancer Patients

...cal staff navigate the numerous medical, legal and ethical issues involved with fertility preservation, Dr Heath says. In a related editorial in the same issue of the MJA, Canadian paediatricians Professor Mark Greenberg and Assistant Professor Stacey Urbach argue for consensus and collaborative research....

Consider Euthanasia For Severely Disabled Babies, College Tells Doctors

...ich it should be considered. An inquiry into the ethical issues raised by the policy of prolonging life in newborn babies by extraordinary measures, is being carried out by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The college wants the euthanasia proposal to be included as part of it. Euthanasia is illegal in ...

Brain development in teens curbed by alcohol tolerance

... alcohol on teenagers cannot be done for legal and ethical reasons, the researchers used rat models. Adolescent rats are similar to human adolescents because they spend more time in social interactions than the younger and the older animals, " Prof. Varlinskaya said. "The results of the study could explain...

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