CLINICAL TRIALS

When stem cell treatments go wrong, they really go wrong

Michael Cook | 18 March 2017 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, research ethics, stem cells

A stem cell 'trial' in Florida blinds three elderly women

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European regulator to release all data from clinical trials

Xavier Symons | 22 October 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical research, clinical trials, transparency

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will now publish all clinical trials data.

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Deliberately infecting healthy patients still happens—ethically

Michael Cook | 28 May 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, human challenge studies, research ethics

Human challenge studies speed up clinical trials

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Testing anti-paedophilia drugs

Michael Cook | 09 April 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, paedophilia, research ethics, Sweden

A randomised trial raises ethical complications

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First US womb transplant fails

Xavier Symons | 12 March 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical ethics, clinical trials, US, womb transplant

The first womb transplant to take place in the US has failed – under dramatic circumstances.

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Sanitizing the language of clinical trials

Michael Cook | 05 March 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, research ethics

When did subjects of medical experiments become "medical heroes""

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Would Jenner’s smallpox experiment pass a research ethics committee?

Andrew George | 20 February 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical ethics, clinical trials, history of bioethics, history of medicine, informed consent

A single vulnerable subject exposed to a dread disease without animal trials -- it's not sounding good

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Catastrophic result in clinical trial in France

Xavier Symons | 17 January 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical trials

One man is brain dead and six others are in critical condition after a stage-one trial.

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Drug companies flunk transparency test

Michael Cook | 21 November 2015 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, drug testing, transparency

Only two-thirds of clinical trials for new drugs were disclosed in 2012, according to a new study in BMJ Open

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Silicon Valley becomes a bioethical testing ground

Michael Cook | 07 November 2015 | Comments

tags: 23andMe, clinical trials, genetic testing, internet, Silicon Valley

Internet giants move into medical research.

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Researchers grow organ in petri dish

Xavier Symons | 16 October 2015 | Comments

tags: clinical research, clinical trials, organ transplants, stem cells

Australian Researchers have managed to grow a mini-kidney in a laboratory

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Ten British women to receive womb transplants

Xavier Symons | 16 October 2015 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, UK, womb transplant

The UK’s Health Research Authority has given the green light for ten British women to receive womb transplants

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Approved anti-depressant deemed unsafe

Xavier Symons | 18 September 2015 | Comments

tags: Big Pharma, clinical trials, conflict of interest, reproducibility

The widely prescribed anti-depressant Paxil has been found by researchers to be neither safe nor effective for the treatment of depression.

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Drug giant appoints bioethicist to head compassionate use panel

Michael Cook | 09 May 2015 | Comments

tags: Arthur Caplan, clinical trials, compassionate use, research ethics

Johnson & Johnson has appointed America’s best-known bioethicist, Art Caplan.

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Unreported clinical trial data “unethical”

Xavier Symons | 18 April 2015 | Comments

tags: clinical research, clinical trials

WHO has called for the disclosure of all results from clinical trials for medical products.

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Should medicine leave the gold standard of randomized trials?

Michael Cook | 18 April 2015 | Comments

tags: clinical ethics, clinical trials, randomized clinical trials

Is it an example of "medical monotheism"?

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Drug tests in East Germany get “conceded pass”

Michael Cook | 25 October 2014 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, Communism, East Germany

Informed consent was not completely ignored in the 1980s, researchers find.

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“Medicinal marijuana is bad medicine” - CMA president

Xavier Symons | 30 August 2014 | Comments

tags: Canada, clinical trials, drugs, marijuana

The debate surrounding Canada’s marijuana laws has intensified, with Canadian Medical Association (CMA) president labeling medicinal marijuana “bad medicine”.

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Divergent approaches to treating Ebola

Michael Cook | 23 August 2014 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, Ebola, public health

How to deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa seems to be splitting bioethicists.

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Have some American homeless become lab rats?

Michael Cook | 01 August 2014 | Comments

tags: clinical trials, research ethics

Companies run clinical trials for drugs, even dangerous drugs, cheaper and faster than universities.

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