Medical Facilities Among Finalists for Greater Dallas Business Ethics Awards
DALLAS, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Balfour Beatty Construction and Sleep Experts have been honored as the recipients of the 2009 Greater Dallas Business Ethics Awards. Two area medical facilities, Texas Institute for Surgery, L.L.P. and Frisco Medical Center, L.L.P., were among the nine finalists. ...Executive Compensation Controversy Rages, SCCE to Determine What Role Compliance and Ethics Play
How Executives and Employees are evaluated and paid is the topic of a survey currently being conducted by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association MINNEAPOLIS, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Companies say that they want their employees to do...The SCOOTER Store Recognizes National Corporate Compliance & Ethics Week
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- To help educate people about the importance of working with lawful and ethical mobility suppliers, The SCOOTER Store, America's leading provider of power wheelchairs and scooters, celebrated National Corporate Compliance and Ethics Week May 4-8. The com...From the ethics of Dr. Frankenstein to preventing cardiovascular disease
PHILADELPHIA, April 2, 2009 -- More than 6,000 internists (adult medicine specialists), subspecialists, medical students, and allied health professionals will meet in Philadelphia for Internal Medicine 2009, the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP), April 23 - 25 (...Gabon establishes national ethics committee
This release is available in French . As the number of health research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa increases, so does the need for improved review of the ethical and scientific rigour of these trials. As we work on increasing the quality of research, we should also work on ensuring th...SCCE and HCCA Social Network Now Open to All Compliance and Ethics Professionals
Free participation available in global compliance and ethics online forum MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) announced today the associations are making their Social Network...Annual medical ethics conference celebrates 20 years of disputes
The 20th annual conference of The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago will honor the Center's founder and director, Mark Siegler, MD, and examine his work and influence on the field. The conference will be held at the University of Chicago Law School, 1111 E. 60...Pfizer Contributes Critical Data to URMC Drug Safety Initiative
...d, or stripped of any information that would enable individual patients to be identified. Additionally, the THEW was designed in order to comply with ethics and patient privacy laws; all data in the warehouse have been de-identified and the system is fully compliant with federal privacy (HIPPA) regulations...Physicians' Health Study II Finds No Magic Bullet for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
....-based trade association representing dietary supplement industry ingredient suppliers and manufacturers. CRN members voluntarily adhere to a code of ethics and manufacture dietary supplements to high quality standards under good manufacturing practices. Bios: Andrew Shao, Ph.D. Vice President, Scien...Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) Names Dr. Derek Winstanly Chair-Elect
...r biopharmaceutical executives to provide long-term strategic solutions, and is responsible for the Office of the Chief Medical Officer as well as the ethics and quality assurance functions of the company. "I congratulate Dr. Winstanly on his appointment as Chair-Elect of ACRO," said David Spaight, ACRO C...PLC Systems Announces Approval of First European Study to Evaluate RenalGuard(TM)
...l/ -- PLC Systems Inc. (Amex: PLC ), a company focused on innovative cardiac and vascular medical device-based technologies, announced today that the ethics committee of the Centro Cardiologico Monzino (CCM-University of Milan), Milan, Italy has approved the planned randomized clinical trial to evaluate th...Valor Medical Announces First Human Implant of Neucrylate AN(TM) for Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysm
...an Pakbaz at the University of Tehran. The treatment was under the guidance of a clinical protocol that had been approved by the University's Internal ethics Committee. Dr. Pakbaz stated that the patient's aneurysm was a type and location that is very difficult to treat. However, the insertion of the Neuc...Phosphagenics Initiates its Phase 2 Clinical Trial in Type 1 Diabetes
...ted (ASX: POH, AIM: PSG, OTCQX: PPGNY) today announced that it has received ethics approval to commence treating patients with Type 1 diabetes in a Phase 2 cl...an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. ethics approval was granted on the basis of data generated from previous trials an...Progen Announces Commencement of Global Phase 3 Study for PI-88 in Post- Resection Liver Cancer
...rial." The study now has regulatory approval in almost half of the participating countries and more than a dozen sites have been granted approval by ethics committees. Sites are being initiated so as to be able to commence patient recruitment as soon as these necessary approvals have been granted. About...Synthetic biology: Is ethics a showstopper?
WASHINGTON Synthetic biology promises to enable cheap, lifesaving new drugs to treat the 350-500 million people who suffer from malaria, and to create innovative biofuels that can help solve the world's energy problems. But the science and its applications are raising questions: Are synthetic b...Leader of Human Genome Project honored with the Inamori Ethics Prize
CLEVELAND Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist and leader of the Human Genome Project, has been awarded with the new Inamori Ethics Prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. Modeled after the Nobel and Kyoto Pri...Geneticist Francis Collins named first recipient of Inamori Ethics Prize at Case Western Reserve
CLEVELAND, OH - Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist and leader of the Human Genome Project, has been named recipient of the inaugural Inamori Ethics Prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. The Inamori Ethics P...Our 'caveman logic' embraces ESP over evolution
... today," said John Teehan, Associate Professor of Religion, Hofstra University and author of In the Name of God: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious ethics and Violence. Davis says CAVEMAN LOGIC: THE PERSISTENCE OF PRIMITIVE THINKING IN A MODERN WORLD is the product of more than two decades of pondering...Notre Dame researchers describe new tool for evaluating 'managed relocations'
...hat the tool does not, by itself, produce management recommendations. They note that even within the working group, disagreements still arise over the ethics and efficacy of the managed relocation strategy. Rather, the tool can help stakeholders in the process identify the sources of their disagreements ...Shorter wait means longer life for kidney transplant candidates
... gets, and the poorer the life expectancy. Long waiting times for donor organs have led many people to seek alternatives, some of which have raised ethics questions. One example in the United States is a members-only organ-sharing "club" in which people who pledge to donate organs get preferred access to...Springer to publish Reproductive Medicine and Biology
...als. The journal contributes to progress in research in many fields, including andrology, endocrinology, oncology, immunology, genetics, surgery and ethics and social issues. The various subjects are examined at the biological, biochemical, biophysical, molecular biological, analytically morphological an...Research project to boost European fish farming
...to enhance biological knowledge of these life processes, identify answers to practical problems and improve the fish-farming process, in terms of both ethics and quality. A total sum of SEK 130 million is being invested in the project. The EU is contributing around SEK 64 million, around ten million of ...Director of Berman Institute comments on FDA Approval of first human embryonic stem cell trial
... but not only, or even primarily, because what is at issue is an embryonic stem cell-based intervention. Although deep-seated disagreements about the ethics of embryo research surround the interest in this study, we need to focus as well on this being the first human trial of its kind. Any "first in human...New Study Shares Insights for Competitive Intelligence Policies, Ethics and Data Collection
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- New research has shown that companies can take advantage of opportunities and manage risk by collecting and understanding intelligence through the competitive or business intelligence function. In an effort to better understand the best practices in de...California IVF Experts Tap Ethics Committee for Guidance
Unique program draws on diverse group to advise on complex infertility treatment issues SAN RAMON, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Reproductive Science Center of the Bay Area (RSC) is launching an innovative advisory group designed to tackle head-on the increasin...Madison bishop with stem-cell views elected to national ethics group
Madison Bishop Robert Morlino has been elected chairman of the board of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, which discusses issues such as stem-cell research. Morlino told The Capital Times in Madison that the destruction of a human embryo is always morally wrong, and that research on emb...With ethics guidelines, political consensus emerging on stem-cell research
In the halls of Congress as well as the Wisconsin Legislature, it is becoming more difficult for the opponents of human embryonic stem cell research to persuade fellow lawmakers that such science is unethical. The fight over stem-cell research is far from over, but public opinion about its relati...Employees debate ethics of giving two weeks' notice
About a year ago, I wrote a column criticizing an "advice article" in the Chicago Tribune about the practice of giving two-week notices when leaving a company. ( Ready to leave? Why you shouldn't give two weeks' notice ) It was published both on ePrairie and with the Wisconsin Technology Network ...Does Synthetic Biology Need Synthesized Ethics?
... New Report Calls for a Broad ethics of Emerging Technologies WASHINGTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -...ics, nano-ethics, neuro-ethics and so on, it is time to begin developing an ethics of emerging technologies as a whole," said Erik Parens in a discussion of t...TechNet Urges Swift U.S. Senate Approval of FCC Nominees Julius Genachowski and Robert McDowell
...g the multitude of communications issues now facing the Commission." "Julius Genachowski and Robert McDowell both bring dedication, tireless work ethics and deep knowledge of complex innovation policy issues to these vital posts on the Federal Communications Commission," said John Chambers, Chairman an...The Concerned Shareholders of Biovail Say Biovail Has Misled Shareholders
...is and Mr. Potter have had notable careers and their business experience or ethics cannot be questioned. However, the Concerned Shareholders strongly disagree...ncerned Shareholders agree that Mr. Haggis and Mr. Potter's credentials and ethics are unquestionable, the Concerned Shareholders therefore ask that sharehold...