Clinical Trials

Panel gives US govt funded clinical research clean bill of health

Michael Cook | 17 December 2011

Current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk in clinical trial, says the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. After a survey of federally-sponsored research involving human volunteers after a scandal over highly unethical treatment of Guatemalan patients in the late 1940s by doctors in the Public Health Service, Commission basically gave American research a clean bill of health.

US mothers participate in clinical trials to make ends meet

Jared Yee | 25 November 2011

More cash-strapped mums are signing up for clinical trials.

Questions over clinical trials in India

Jared Yee | 24 November 2011

Western pharmaceutical companies have pinpointed India as a prime candidate for outsourcing clinical trials, due to its population and lax regulations, which help slash research costs.

Panel urges ethics study of testing anthrax vaccine on children

Jared Yee | 03 November 2011

Informed consent and the possible threat of terrorist attack have clashed in a debate over whether an anthrax vaccine should be tested on children.

Are we morally obliged to participate in research?

Michael Cook | 22 October 2011

Bioethics debates are often robust, but it’s not every day that they make a reader sick. This was the reaction of Professor Bill Gleason, of the University of Minnesota Medical School, a columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He had just attended a seminar at his university, “Do people have a moral obligation to participate in research?”. The contrarian views of Rosamund Rhodes, of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, in New York, were so unsettling that he needed three beers to come back to earth.

Interview: John D. Arras on the Guatemala syphilis study

Michael Cook | 26 September 2011

Embryonic stem cell trial to begin in UK

Michael Cook | 23 September 2011

Guatemalans were victims of US syphilis study in 1940s

29 May 2011

The horrendous syphilis experiment conducted by American doctors on Guatemalan prisoners and soldiers is finally getting some news coverage.

Liz Taylor: actress, activist, clinical trial subject

Jared Yee | 30 March 2011

Elizabeth Taylor: clinical trial subject

Presidential commission to examine clinical trial ethics

Michael Cook | 05 March 2011

President Obama’s bioethics commission has formed an international research panel to examine protections for human subjects in clinical trials.

Class action filed over blood of newborns

Jared Yee | 18 December 2010

Parents seek destruction of leftover samples

Unauthorised tests could land execs in jail

Michael Cook | 03 December 2010

Company did unauthorised tests of bone cement

Second trial with embryonic stem cells

Jared Yee | 26 November 2010

To cure blindness

Is Geron’s embryonic stem cell trial the dawn of a new age?

Jared Yee | 15 October 2010

Embryonic stem cells used for world-first treatment

The Professional Guinea Pig

Roberto Abadie | 14 September 2010

An interview with the author of The Professional Guinea Pig

Nerve-wracking times for stem cell investors

Michael Cook | 04 September 2010

Geron prepares for Phase 1 clinical trial

Should clinical trials be used as marketing exercises?

Michael Cook | 04 September 2010

Death in anti-psychotic trial raises disturbing questions.

UK doctor censured over “callous” and “dishonest” trial on children

Michael Cook | 13 February 2010

Andrew Wakefield saga draws to close

Should patients be forced to participate in clinical trials?

Michael Cook | 10 December 2009

Stem cell scientst calls for mandatory participation