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Parkinson’s fetal tissue transplant experiment fails – Nature Fri, 29 Aug 2003 The journal Nature reports about yet another Parkinson’s fetal tissue transplant experiment (at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NY) that has failed to show any benefit for the patients. Indeed, in the latest such experiment 50% of…
NHLBI director Dr. Lenfant is Retiring Thu, 3 Jul 2003 The retirement of Dr. Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) was announced today. Not mentioned in the press release is the heated controversy surrounding two clinical trials sponsored by the NHLBI, conducted by the…
Walk-in Drug Trial Clinic NYC Upper East Side Wed, 17 Sep 2003 While ethics is currently a hot topic at universities, and ethics committees and conferences have become a growth industry within the research community, ethics has not affected the increasing commercialization of medicine and clinical trials. Dr. Ronald Fieve,…
AHRP InfoMail Return to Home Page Return to InfoMail Media Coverage List MediaCoverage News Stories on Human ResearchProtection andCommentary by Vera Hassner Sharav April 2, 2002 Francis Fukuyama:Don’t Alter Human Nature FYI Human nature "is fundamental to our notions ofjustice, morality and the good life." In an interview in The New…
The Rutherford Institute Takes on TeenScreen Case in Indiana Mon, 13 Jun 2005 Good News! The high profile civil libertarian Rutherford Institute has taken up the case of Mike and Teresa Rhoades whose15-year old daughter was screened in her Indiana school for mental illness– without their permission. John Whitehead, the…
Failed Paxil drug tests in children concealed – Guardian UK Thu, 5 Feb 2004 The Guardian (UK) reports (below) that BBC Panorama had obtained secret 1998 documents from SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline, GSK) showing that the company deliberately concealed the failure of Seroxat / Paxil to demonstrate a benefit for…