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Letter Submitted to New England Journal of Medicine re ARDS Investigation

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The accompanying editorial, "Controlling Research Trials," by Dr. J.M. Drazen, who serves on the NHLBI advisory committee that had approved the disputed trial, reveals much about the NIH attitude toward the rest of the world.

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Should the EPA Accept Human Pesticide Experiments?

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My name is Vera Sharav and I am the president and founder of The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) a citizens’ watchdog organization monitoring human research to ensure that the moral principles enshrined in the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki are preserved and followed in experiments involving human beings.

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Memorandum in Opposition to California AB 2328

REASONS FOR OPPOSITION:

Researchers would not be required to first try approved treatments, if any exist, before entering the patient into a medical experiment that may be "risky."

Researchers would not be required to consult with an independent medical expert, a non-researcher who would consider the patient’s best medical interests as paramount.

Researchers would not be required to disclose their own professional and financial interests deriving from the experiment.

Researchers would not be required to fully disclose to the patient’s family what happened to other patients who had already participated in the experiment.