Posts Tagged ‘NEJM’
Another Rotavirus Vaccine Bites the Dust
A clinical trial of the new rotavirus vaccine from the Serum Institute of India shows that the vaccine increases the incidence of diarrhea instead of decreasing it. The vaccine BRV-PV (manufactured by Serum Institute India) was field tested in Niger in Western Africa. The results were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine…
Read MoreWho decides if it’s treatment or a medical experiment?
Current worrisome trends U.S. government and academic bioethicists and institutional ethics review boards (IRB) have expunged the explicit honest terminology of the Nuremberg Code: “experiment” has been replaced by the innocuous term “study”; “human subject” is being replaced by “participant”; and the foremost ethical mandate — “the voluntary, informed consent is absolutely essential”—has been perforated…
Read MoreBuchenwald Trial at Dachau; Ravensbrück Trial at Hamburg
Buchenwald Trial at Dachau, April 11 –August 14, 1947 Between July 1937 and April 1945, some 250,000 persons of 30 nationalities were imprisoned at various times at Buchenwald; by Feb. 1945, there were 112,000 prisoners at Buchenwald. It is estimated that about 56,000 were killed or died from starvation and exhaustion as slave laborers. U.S.…
Read MoreMarcia Angell, MD
The first woman Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine; currently Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; author of The Truth About the Drug Companies. . . .
Read MoreMaurice 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 London teaching hospital.” By all accounts he was rejected because he was a…
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 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. . . .
Read More“An Ethical Breakdown”
Disclosure of the egregious ethical, methodological and legal violations outlined in the letter of determination by the Federal Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) regarding the so-called SUPPORT oxygen experiment. . . .
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