Posts Tagged ‘Infants’
Accountability Demanded – NYC Foster Children AIDS drug trials
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.
Read More1932–1945: Doctors & Academics Perverted Medicine & Science in Nazi Germany
“The medical crimes of the Third Reich were the result of a dynamic triad involving the state, the medical profession, and an academic enterprise comprising the universities and the research institutes.” (Seidelman, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2000) Germany was the birthplace of modern medicine in the early 20th century. The vocabulary of medicine is replete…
Read More1939–1945: Medicalized Mass Murder, Children first
“Eugenic Extermination” “Children’s euthanasia” a murderous program, unique in the history of mankind, that targeted infants, children, and young adults as the means for actualizing a social Darwinist vision of society. By systematically murdering children, scientists sought to eradicate pathological phenotype — “eugenic extermination.” Not until 2000 did historians document 30 killing stations, misleadingly labeled Kinderfachabteilungen…
Read MoreBernadine Healy, MD (1944–2011)
Bernadine Healy, MD, a cardiologist, was the first woman Director of the National Institutes of Health (1991–1993); Dean of Ohio State University College of Medicine (1995–1999); President of the American Heart Association (1998–1999); Deputy Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Techonology; Chair of the Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1985); and President…
Read MoreFrances Oldham Kelsey MD, PhD
Frances Oldham Kelsey MD, PhD, has earned her place as “America’s Greatest Living Heroine” — she turned 100 on July 24, 2014. Dr. Kelsey was the medical pharmacologist at the FDA who refused to license thalidomide for the U.S. market despite the enormous pressures put upon her by a pharmaceutical company. Her determination not to…
Read MoreMedical 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. . . .
Read MoreMedical Research Stakeholders Seek to Overturn Informed Consent Protections
Part 2 of 4. The Medical Research Enterprise: a confluence of self-interest groups: government officials, academic researchers. . . .
Read MoreAnother 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. . . .
Read MoreMedical Research Stakeholders Seek to Overturn Informed Consent Protection
“In real ethics, there are some things that must never be done. Bioethics is . . . enticed onward by the question, Why not?. . .
Read MoreOHRP 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. . . .
Read MorePremature Babies, Targets of Unethical Experimentation
Newly obtained documents from the SUPPORT oxygen experiment on tiny premature babies reveal far more extensive medical ethics violations. . . .
Read MoreDoctors Deceived, Premature Infants’ Lives Sacrificed
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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