Unethical Experiments

Schism Between Ethical Principles and the US Regulatory System

ByVera Sharav August 13, 2009

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Unethical Experiments

The Prison as Laboratory_2002
January 10, 2002November 21, 2014

"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential," reads the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which was drafted in direct response to the sheer barbarity of Nazi-era medical experiments on Jews and other captive groups.

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AHRP Speaks Out | Informed Consent Waivers | NIH -- Ethics Violations | Unethical Experiments | Vulnerable Groups

AHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM
October 26, 2006September 19, 2015

AHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM Fri, 11 Jul 2003 A truncated version of a Letter to the editor submitted by John H. Noble, Jr., PhD and Vera Sharav appears in the current July 10, 2003, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Note: On April 3,…

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Apartheid Policies | Current Medical Atrocities | Unethical Experiments

Non-Consensual Medical Experiments Expose Patients to Risk of Death
October 6, 2018September 17, 2021

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…

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Doctors Deceived, Premature Infants’ Lives Sacrificed
April 23, 2013November 21, 2014

Extremely low weight premature infants have an approximately 20% mortality rate — if treated with the best current practice. These babies’ lives are at serious risk. . . .

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AHRP Files Federal Complaint Re: Non-Consensual “Blood Substitute” Experiment on Trauma Patients
March 2, 2006November 21, 2014

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.

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FDA Internal Document: Use of Placebo-Controls in Life Threatening Diseases
October 4, 2007November 21, 2014

The efficacy and safety of a new drug that treats a serious and life threatening illness in premature infants will be studied versus sham/placebo in Latin America. The sponsor plans to apply for FDA approval, in addition to local and European registration. There are approved therapies (surfactants) for this illness (Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or RDS) in those countries where this trial is proposed to take place, and surfactants are even used in some of their hospitals. However, surfactants are completely unavailable to infants at many other hospitals, secondary to rationing or economic limitations.

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