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It’s Not Just MDs: Patient Advocacy Organizations Have Industry Ties, Too
Recent studies have revealed surprising financial ties of patient advocacy organizations: the vast majority receive financial support from drug, device, and biotechnology companies.
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Research Misconduct Rarely Reported by Authors of Systematic Reviews
Research misconduct — not publishing completed research, duplicate publications, or selective reporting of outcomes — sometimes is identified by authors of systematic reviews, but is rarely reported, found a recent study.
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NIH Policy on Review of Multicenter Studies: ‘One Size Fits All’
A new National Institutes of Health policy mandates that all domestic sites participating in multicenter research studies use a single institutional review board.
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Updated Common Rule: ‘Massive Improvement’ For Human Subjects Research
The long-awaited updated Common Rule for federal regulations for ethical conduct of human subjects research is quite different from what was initially proposed.
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Study: Scientifically Unproven Marketing Claims Very Common on Websites
Marketing claims on websites of complementary and alternative medicine therapies practitioners regarding allergy and asthma often included interventions that were not scientifically supported, according to a new study.
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Committee Says Human Genome Editing Ethically Permissible — Under Certain Conditions
Stringent oversight might be necessary in order for heritable germline editing clinical trials to be conducted, according to a new report indicating use of the technique could be ethically permissible, but only for treating or preventing serious diseases.
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Health Equity Study Finds ‘Fundamental Lack Of Fairness’
The burdens of disease and the benefits of good health are inequitably distributed in the U.S. due to factors that range from poverty and inadequate housing to structural racism and discrimination, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Study: Ethics Consults Happen Earlier If Patient Is Female
Clinical ethicists at Springfield, IL-based Memorial Medical Center suspected that ethics consultations about limiting treatment were being requested earlier in patients’ hospital stays for African-Americans than for other patients.
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Overly Strict Criteria For Clinical Trials Is Ethical Problem
Clinical trials routinely use overly strict enrollment criteria, found a recent study.
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Ethical Responses if Clinician Is Asked to Help Law Enforcement
When emergency medicine clinicians are caring for a patient in the custody of law enforcement, multiple ethical issues must be considered.