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Tag: "ethical" at medical news

Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet

... the DNA test and some Internet searches, raising ethical and social concerns about assisted reproduction that were not thought of when it started//. A 15-year-old boy who was born to an unknown father using a donor sperm has succeeded in tracking down his father, using just the DNA test, genealogical reco...

India to maintain Public domain Registry database of clinical trials conducted in India.

...rials, protection of vulnerable subjects, building ethical capacity, creating review mechanisms, reporting ad...atory framework for clinical trials and addressing ethical issues. Experts View: Ashwani Kumar, Drug Controller General of India said, “Multi-centric clinica...

Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India

...rs, which all operate under the watchful eye of an ethical review board. Together with the Hyderabad based Apollo Hospitals Group. Histostem plans to establish canters in India. Shen said usage is currently limited to research and treatment, but might be expanded to other application “based on further need.”...

Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

...aged according to US National Institutes of Health ethical standards. Despite this promising start, some warn that even seemingly airtight laws and scientists best intentions cannot ensure against abuses. (Source: Nature Biotechology)...

US Senate Votes against Testing of Pesticide on Humans

...mentally unethical’ by EPA staff. “The moral and ethical issues surrounding these pesticide experiments are overwhelming,” California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, who introduced the amendment, said after the vote. The Pesticide industry, represented by the Washington lobbying group CropLife America, a...

The Growing Rise In Clinical Research Could Lead To A Compromise In Quality Of Research And Ethics

...he newer organizations compromising on quality and ethical standards while conducting drug trials. // The p...n place guidances without compromising quality and ethical standards. However others like Dr Chetan Tamhankar say that efforts should be made to form a body th...

Scandals Can Affect Medical Research

... from living children with appropriate consent and ethical approval, say the authors. “During the height of the controversy, press reports suggested that the only proper response to any use of children’s tissue was skepticism and questioning of professional motives.” Anecdotal experience also suggests that ...

American scientists alter gene makeup of babies

...ed in man’s progress in the field of Genetics, the ethical issues related to cloning continue to haunt the medical fraternity. ...

New Race –Specific drug

...-standing one, and it raises a number of legal and ethical questions. There is a powerful lobby which is in favour of racial profiling when it comes to drug development, backed by evidence that suggests a degree of truth in the ethnicity theory. The reasons for the difference inresponse to a drug are unclear...

More risks connected with live-donor liver transplants

...chers said that this type of transplant has raised ethical questions as healthy donors, usually friends and relatives , are subjected to surgery, as they feel pressurized to participate despite the fear of complications and death. They also said that the number of such transplants has been steadily raising s...

Genetic tests for cancer

...vised to have the test. The reasons are technical, ethical and psychological. It is vital that the patient's family history be considered alongside the laboratory evidence for the presence of a cancer gene. This needs to be checked from an independent source, such as a cancer registry. If someone doesn't ha...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...eminiscent of embryonic stem cells but without the ethical concerns. These findings -- which the Nature papers now question -- have challenged the traditional view that with the possible exception of those from the brain, adult stem cells are limited to the tissues from which they arise. Many opponents of th...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...entia -- become unbearable. "There's a tremendous ethical question for diagnosing (early) a disease for which this is no cure," James L. Olds, a professor of neuroscience at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and director of the Krasnow Institute, cautioned in an interview with UPI. He said since the...

Creating brain cells from bone marrow

...the patient's own bone marrow. This would sidestep ethical and technical problems around using embryonic stem cells....

Physicians Consider Self-Prescribing Ethical

... the urban physicians considered self-prescription ethical compared with only 58% of rural physicians. About half of all physicians considered self-prescription healthy and about 80% did not consider self-prescription "necessary." Wroblewski speculated that the main reason physicians self-prescribe is that...

Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...de a similar declaration in January 1998, sparking ethical and legal debate (BMJ 1998;316:167). The current announcement is considered to be more serious because cloning technology has matured and the principal investigators have experience in treating infertility. The controversy, however, remains. This is...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

...at of drug trials. Drug testing has always been an ethical issue and has kindled a lot of heated arguments for and against it. Recent studies have revealed that cancer victims suffer the most when it comes to drug testing when sometimes very toxic new anti cancer drugs are tested on unsuspecting victims in t...

Stem cell research- now Nobel Laureates join the debate

...y situation, as it has to decide carefully on this ethical issue, which has infuriated many in the United States. Leaving the ethical part aside, a group of 80 high profile scientists including amongst other luminaries like James Wats...

HIV infected patients can travel safely abroad

...ssengers. Others are just indifferent. Leaving the ethical issues aside, it is very difficult for these victims to travel because of, many reasons. Primarily the physicians of these patients do not encourage them to travel. Other reasons are that the travel agencies themselves politely rebuff them when they ...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

... marriage. The matter is not so important from the ethical viewpoint but a very important topic with regards to healthy sexual behavior, they say. With sexually transmitted diseases making a come back in terms of number of cases reported and with ever increasing abortions sparking a major international debat...

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