The efforts of AHRP to hold the medical research community and government administrators accountable for unethical exploitation of vulnerable children in medical experiments conducted in violation of federal regulations. Continue reading →
Guinea Pigs
UK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs" Guardian
UK Patients Used as Drug ‘Guinea Pigs”_Guardian Feb 9 2003 Medical fraud experts in the U.K. estimate that one per cent of all drug trials involve fraud, including failure to get proper consent from patients. An investigation by The Guardian / Observer . . . Continue reading →
Maurice Henry Pappworth, MD
Maurice Henry Pappworth, MD, (1910–1994) was, by any standard, a controversial figure. “A life-long outsider he chose an unconventional career path as a private medical tutor rather than accept anything less than his first job choice — a consultant post in a . . . Continue reading →
Medical Research Stakeholders Seek to Overturn Informed Consent Protections
Part 3 of 4. Though bioethicists self-consciously avoid using the term — because of its inextricable link to Nazi ideology. . . . Continue reading →
Another View Academics for Informed Consent
“The OHRP and SUPPORT — Another View” by a group of 45 physicians, ethicists, and scholars in allied fields who have stepped up to the plate to express their support for OHRP’s determination. . . . Continue reading →
OHRP Caves Under SUPPORT Pressure Re: oxygen experiment tiny premature babies
BEWARE of the powerful influence of institutional medical research. They have pushed hard to get the federal research. . . . Continue reading →
4,500 Neonates Sought as Guinea Pigs in Gov. Experiments
4,500 vulnerable premature babies are being sought as guinea pigs in 7 government-funded experiments being conducted by the National Research Network–the same Network that conducted the lethal oxygen experiment. . Continue reading →
Behind the Smokescreen: Conditional Approval for Anthrax Vaccine Trial in Children
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released its “[ ] Pediatric Research on Medical Countermeasures” Report and recommendations, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The Report and the Commission Chair, Dr. Amy Gutmann, who presided over a press teleconference took . . . Continue reading →
US Government PlansTo Test Anthrax Vaccine on Children
Help stop the US government from injecting children with anthrax vaccine in an experiment whose aim is to justify increased expenditure for the vaccine (BioThrax) for civilian stockpile. Continue reading →
Obama Administration Propsal: Anthrax Vaccine Experiment on Children
Whose children are to be selected for morally and legally impermissible medical experiments? Continue reading →
India Supreme Court Orders End to Illegal Clinical Trials
“You have to protect the health of the citizens of the country. It is your obligation. Deaths must be arrested and illegal trials must be stopped.” Continue reading →
Have India’s Poor Become Human Guinea Pigs?
"Over the past seven years, some 73 clinical trials on 3,300 patients – 1,833 of whom were children – have taken place at Indore’s Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital. Dozens of patients have died during the trials, however no compensation has been paid to the families left behind." Continue reading →