Obama Administration Propsal: Anthrax Vaccine Experiment on Children
Whose children are to be selected for morally and legally impermissible medical experiments?
EPA Diesel Gas & Pollutant Inhalation Experiments
The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting ongoing poisonous air pollutant inhalation experiments on human beings that defy civilized medical research–many have been conducted at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, others at the University of Rochester (NY), University of Southern California, University of Michigan, and elsewhere.
Contemporary Medical Culture and its Moral Vulnerability
An insightful, sobering essay, A Long Shadow: Nazi Doctors, Moral Vulnerability and Contemporary Medical Culture by a student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Two UC Nueurosurgeons Banned From Human Research
Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar, Chairman of the department of neurological surgery, and Dr. Rudolph J. Schrot, injected bacteria into the head wounds of terminally ill patients, calling it "innovative treatment."
German Medical Society Apologizes for Nazi-era Atrocities by Doctors
Sixty-eight years after theverdict concluding the Nuremberg Doctors Trial–a verdict that includes the Nuremberg Code–the German Medical Association (Bundesarztekammer) has finally acknowledged the culpability of Germany’s medical community during the Nazi regime.
Presidential Panel Condemns US Syphilis Study in Guatemala
A year after professor Susan M. Reverby, a historian at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, uncovered a heinous Guatemalan syphilis experiment conducted between 1946 and 1948, on at least 5,500 under the auspices of the US Public Health Service, a hearing was held this week about the findings of the…
U of Minnesota Officials Have No Shame!
“Do we have to wait for him to kill himself or someone else before anyone does anything?” thinking for sure someone would call me back in the morning and re-hospitalize Dan. Unbelievably, no one responded…" Mary Weiss.
Charles Schulz under scrutiny for Seroquel study suicide
"This case goes beyond everything and anything, and this should have brought the house down on the university."
Pres. Obama Orders Investigation of Guatamalan Syphilis Experiment
President Obama ordered a review by his bioethics commission following the revelations that yet another experiment sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, was even more odious than the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. In the recently uncovered experiment, unwitting Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis by the same doctor who…
“Much worse than Tuskegee…” More Revelations Re: U.S. Guatemala Experiment
"… it’s appalling — that, at the same time as the United States was prosecuting Nazi doctors for crimes against humanity, the U.S. government was supporting research that placed human subjects at enormous risk.”
US Apologizes for Criminal Human Experiment
Does an "apology" suffice for criminal experimentation designed to cause harm?
AHRP Complaint Results in Research Protocol Change
"OHRP shared your concerns and discussed them with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. They appreciated the concerns and have revised the protocol to address them."