Is This Permissible Medical Research? Fri, 27 Sep 2002 A federally funded experiment for the treatment of acute respiratory distress (ARDS) conducted at 12 major research centers, 1996-1999, has come under sharp criticism. The ARDS researchers sought to find a method for reducing the death rate among acutely ill patients…
Rutherford Files Mental Health Screening Lawsuit_Indiana / Fierce Opposition to TeenScreen Mounts – Pittsburgh Mon, 19 Sep 2005 The Rutherford Institute has just filed a lawsuit in Indiana challenging a school for subjecting a teenager to a mental health screening test – TeenScreen–without her parents’ knowledge or consent. After completing…
Protecting Human Subjects in Research: Are Current Safeguards Adequate? AHRP Testimony submitted to Congressional Committee April 23, 2002 Vera Hassner Sharav, President, and John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D., steering committee member, The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), before the Subcommittee on Public Health, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, &…
Dissenting Opinion: Against Waiving Parental Permission for Research July 25, 2001 To: Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D, Chairperson, National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee Department of Health and Human Services Re: Specific Comment on FDA’s Decision to Adopt HHS 45 CFR 46 Subpart D, EXCLUDING §46.408 (c) Dissenting opinion of Vera…
Artificial Heart experiment without informed consent? Wed, 30 Apr 2003 The manufacturer of an artificial heart, Abiomed, are seeking to use incapacitated patients who suffered a massive heart attack as human subjects without their informed consent. Does anyone have the moral or legal right to subject a human being to…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav April 10a, 2002 U.S. Bio-Tech Start-ups Conducting CheapPreliminary Studies in China FYI Harvard University is not the only one exploiting China’spoor population for medical experiments. Violations of…
Death of Baby Prompts Scrutiny of Research Risks_St. Louis Post Dispatch 16 Feb 2003 Eighteen month old, Daniella Rogers, died on May 3, 2002, two months after undergoing a clinical trial of chemotherapy treatments at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. When her parents, John and Oksana Rogers, learned that their baby…
Fast growing business: Unethical clinical trials in India – Asia Times Tue, 27 Jul 2004 Asia Times reports: “India increasingly emerges as a preferred destination for outsourcing clinical trials – testing of new drugs on humans – the country may also be heading toward providing the greatest source of human…
September 25, 2002 NIH suspended ARDS Lung experiment in Aug / AHRP filed complaint re: ARDS in July FYI On July 29, 2002 The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) filed a complaint with the federal Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP), expressing ethical and methodological concerns about an acute…
Anthrax Global Press Conference Friday, April 1, at 2:00 PM: Reunion of Heavy Metal Music Band To Raise Awareness Against Forced Drugs Wed, 30 Mar 2005 An unusual global press conference will kick off a week-end of heavy metal music and a public awareness campign. The press conference is scheduled…
Testimony Submitted to the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) by Vera Hassner Sharav and Marie M. Cassidy, Ph.D, D.Sc. April, 2001 AHRP recognizes that to include children in clinical trials for any medication presents a dilemma of truly Solomonic proportions. It is a choice between continuing the practice of…
Maryland Court of Appeals Denies Motion to Reconsider Lead Paint Ruling October 10, 2001 FYI Maryland’s highest court denied the motion for reconsideration or partial modification of its Opinion–as requested by Kennedy Krieger Institute and their powerful allies in the research community (who filed Amicus briefs in support of defendants’…
