Doctors revise Declaration of Helsinki

Patients, doctors and experimentation: doubts about the Declaration of Helsinki.

The World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki offers guidelines to doctors engaged in biomedical research with human subjects. The fundamental distinction of the Declaration is between clinical research combined with professional care and non-clinical scientific research. If hospital patients are the experimental subjects, then the former research must be carried out by the patient's ...

The Declaration of Helsinki and public health.

This section looks back on a ground-breaking contribution to public health, reproduces an extract of the original text and adds a commentary on its significance from a modern perspective. To complement the theme of this month’s issue, John R Williams looks at the Declaration of Helsinki and how it has evolved over time. The original declaration is reproduced here in full with permission of the ...

[New version of the Declaration of Helsinki: shortcomings to resolve].

1 Comité Institucional de Ética en Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas. Lima, Perú. 2 Departamento de Oncología Médica, Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas. Lima, Perú. 3 Liga Peruana de Lucha contra el Cáncer. Lima, Perú. 4 Radioncología, AUNA. Lima, Perú. a Químico farmacéutico; b Médico oncólogo clínico, magíster en Genética...

Revising the Declaration of Helsinki: a work in progress.

Placebo-controlled trials and the Declaration of Helsinki.

A revised version of the Declaration of Helsinki, issued in October, 2000, remains a vital expression of medical ethics, and deserves unanimous support. A strict interpretation of the declaration seems to rule out clinical trials that use a placebo control group whenever licensed therapeutic methods already exist, preferring active controls. Although the efficacy of some new medicines can be sa...