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Recent Blog Posts
Irregularities in Recruitment in Potential Gene Therapy Research Death
on Aug 5, 2007 in News Research Ethics Genetics Last week I linked to an emerging story about a woman who has died while being involved in gene therapy for arthritis: Not a good day for research. While it is not yet confirmed whether the woman's death was due to the gene therapy it does appear tha...
Snapshots of Research Ethics around the world and around the web
on Aug 8, 2007 in Blogs Research Ethics Research ethics is an interesting field because although most countries seem to support similar sounding values in our research ethics systems these systems are often radically different from each other. Likewise different disciplines approach ethics...
NHS Scale research testing
on Aug 12, 2007 in Research Ethics Ben Goldacre appears to be running a series on how pharmaceutical corporations contribute to the high cost of health care in the Guardian: Evil ways of the drug companies Spectacularly expensive cost of trial and errorIn this post I will discuss the...
Communicating bad trial results to the media
on Aug 14, 2007 in Research Ethics Public Perception of Science An interesting article on SciDevNet called Trial practitioners must become media savvy drew my attention to this paper: South Africa's Experience of the Closure of the Cellulose Sulphate Microbicide TrialIn PLoS Medicine.It is an interesting paper ab...
Ethics & Pesticide Research
on Aug 23, 2007 in Pharma Research Ethics Brandon Keim has a series of posts over at Wired Science on ethical issues in pesticide research which are worth the read. Dow: Our Unethical Tests Show That Nerve Poison is SafeWhy Testing Pesticides on People is Wrong, Part One: Unwitting College S...