RESEARCH ETHICS

Rethinking the 14 day rule

Xavier Symons | 10 June 2017 | Comments

tags: 14 day rule, embryo experimentation, embryo research, research ethics

Policy analysts are calling for a “reconsideration” of the decades-old 14-day embryo experimentation rule.

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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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Why the media need to tread carefully when reporting research findings

Hannah Brown | 07 February 2017 | Comments

tags: research ethics

Exaggerating the facts helps no one.

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Gin and bear it

Michael Cook | 15 October 2016 | Comments

tags: media ethics, media hype, research ethics, social psychology

A parable of media hype

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‘Testing in the East’: an episode in Cold War bioethics

Ulf Schmidt and Jonathan D. Moreno | 24 September 2016 | Comments

tags: clinical trial, cold war experiments, communism, east germany, research ethics

Big Pharma's tests in East Germany were ethical, investigations have shown. Why?

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The ugly legacy of Nazi doctors resurfaces

Xavier Symons | 17 September 2016 | Comments

tags: consent, germany, nazi doctors, research ethics

A research institute in Germany has been forced to dispose of 100 brain specimens after discovering they were sourced from illicit medical research.

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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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Hackers download OkCupid data without consent

Michael Cook | 14 May 2016 | Comments

tags: informed consent, internet, privacy, research ethics

Danish researchers post information on 70,000 people

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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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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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The Experimenter’s pessimism

Michael Cook | 30 October 2015 | Comments

tags: films, research ethics

A new film highlights the controversial experiments by Stanley Milgram

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New research ethics guidelines planned for US

Xavier Symons | 26 September 2015 | Comments

tags: Common Rule, research ethics

HHS has proposed an overhaul of existing human research ethics guidelines

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Animal research ethics in question

Xavier Symons | 18 September 2015 | Comments

tags: animal research, animal rights, human exceptionalism, research ethics

A new edition of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics contains several thought-provoking articles on the ethics of animal research.

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Thalidomide scandal continues to reverberate

Michael Cook | 30 May 2015 | Comments

tags: research ethics, Thalidomide

A new book makes explosive claims about the business ethics of the Australian distributor of Thalidomide

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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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Even for Ebola, unproven treatments are dicey, say bioethicists

Xavier Symons | 17 April 2015 | Comments

tags: Ebola, public health, research ethics

Focus on other methods of stemming the spread of the disease.

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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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Bioethicists defend ‘manipulative’ Facebook study

Xavier Symons | 01 August 2014 | Comments

tags: Facebook, informed consent, research ethics

After the flurry of criticism for the now infamous Facebook ‘social contagion’ study, bioethicists are defending its authors.

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‘Treat researchers with contempt’: new animal rights advert

Xavier Symons | 16 May 2014 | Comments

tags: animal rights, research ethics

A new animal rights advertisement has sparked controversy in Germany. It vilifies an animal physiology researcher from the University of Bremen, and calls upon the public to treat researchers who experiment on animals with contempt.

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Concern in UK over new medical experimentation bill

Xavier Symons | 02 May 2014 | Comments

tags: end of life, research ethics

Experts are seriously alarmed at a new clinical experimentation bill due to go before the UK parliament. The bill is intended to protect doctors from negligence claims if they chose to experiment with new treatments on dying patients.

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