Ethical Standards and Codes
Ethical Standards and Codes
Additional Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions:
Amnesty International
Additional Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions:
Amnesty International
2010: U.S. Inspector General report: 78% of human subjects in clinical trials lived outside the U.S. The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services report found that 78% of human subjects in drug trials lived outside the U.S where safeguards and inspections are rare; 13,000 Peruvians were…
When invited to become subjects in a medical experiment, most African-Americans decline; the memory of Tuskegee is indelibly ingrained in their communal memory. Their distrust is buttressed by the evidence; before and since Tuskegee. This community has been subjected to a continuum pattern of discrimination and exploitation by the medical…
Commentary by Vera Hassner Sharav February 18, 2002 FYI United States Government Sponsored Genetic Research in Rural China Raises Troubling Ethical Concerns A January 2002 report in China Daily, byXiong Lei, the senior journalist with China Features, Xinhua News Agency(below), raises troubling ethical concerns about U.S. government-sponsoredgenetic research in rural…
THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) 142 West End Ave, Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 212-595-8974 ahrp@researchprotection.org September 4, 2002 Michael Carome, MD Associate Director for Regulatory Affairs Office for Human Research Protections The Tower Building 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200 Rockville, Maryland 20852 Re: Acute Respiratory Distress…
On March 10, 2004, The ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) filed a complaint with both the Food and Drug Administration and the federal Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) when we learned that 36 Phase I and Phase II AIDS drug and vaccine experiments had been conducted on infants…
This controversial, commercial experiment is being conducted without informed consent in trauma patients who require blood to survive. PolyHeme is being tested in patients in ambulances and at hospital emergency facilities where these trauma patients are denied life-saving real blood.