Medical Research Ethics

Ethical Standards and Codes

ByVera Sharav October 26, 2006September 30, 2016

Ethical Standards and Codes

Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Committee Report & Public Briefing, Oct. 3, 2002

The Hippocratic Oath

The Nuremberg Code

Declaration of Helsinki

The Belmont Report

Additional Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions:
Amnesty International

Federal Policy for Protection of Human Subjects: 45 CFR 46

Apartheid Policies | Children Victimized | Foster Care | Immoral Experiments | Unethical Experiments

Vera Institute of Justice Final Report (2009): 80 NYC Foster Children Died in AIDS Drug Trials
August 1, 2015September 17, 2021

Background: Between 1985 and 2005, at least 532 infants and children in New York City were conscripted as human subjects of clinical trials testing experimental AIDS drugs and vaccines. The New York City Agency for Child Services (ACS), the custodian of foster care children, gave agencies such as Incarnation Children’s Center,…

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Unethical Experiments

May 21, 2015August 21, 2016

1998: Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill, a prize winning research expose by The Boston Globe In November, 1998, the first of a four-part series by Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong shed light on the abusive research parameters of non-therapeutic experiments conducted on mentally incapacitated individuals. They focused on several…

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Informed Consent | Unethical Experiments

The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research
October 20, 2019September 17, 2021

President Barak Obama’s *declared* healthcare reform goal was to cut healthcare costs and to provide access to healthcare by mandating healthcare insurance. During the heated debate about *the Affordable Care Act (in 2009, when Obamacare was a pejorative name), two contentious issues in particular aroused public suspicion and these were…

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Medical Atrocities | Medical Ethics - Human Rights | Medical Research Ethics | Nazi Medical Atrocities | Pharma Corrupt Influence

World Medical Association, a haven for leading Nazi doctors
November 18, 2014September 17, 2021

In 1946, the World Medical Association (WMA) was formed by representatives of 32 national medical associations. In 1947, one month after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trial, the WMA held its first meeting, when it adopted a new physician’s oath, omitting injunctions against abortion and euthanasia. Almost from its inception,…

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Investigations | NIH -- Ethics Violations | Unethical Experiments

Mechanical ventilation in ARDS: One size does not fit all – Editorial AJCCM
May 20, 2005March 29, 2016

Fri, 20 May 2005 ARMA was a government-sponsored, $41 million experiment involving 861 critically ill patients with severe lung injury–i.e., acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). It has been at the center of continuing debate prompted by revelations that researchers at 14 of the nation’s major medical research institutions comprising the…

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Medical Ethics - Human Rights | Unethical Experiments

San Diego VA hospital Medical Research in Violation of Informed Consent
October 17, 2019September 17, 2021

A congressional hearing was held on October 16, 2019, to examine the allegations by two whistleblowers — Martina Buck, Ph.D., a UCSD and VA research scientist and her husband, Mario Chojkier, M.D., UCSD professor of medicine and a liver specialist at the VA Medical Center — that veterans at the…

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