Ethical considerations for epidemic vaccine trials

Ethical considerations in AIDS vaccine trials.

Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/hed Ethical aspects of biomedical research in humans have been unmasked at a late stage in the history of science. They have been apparent for not more than approximately 60 years, and did not gain attention as a result of ongoing refinements of fundamental human rights. On the contrary, their recognition followed a traditional pattern in the histor...

The obesity epidemic: medical and ethical considerations

Obesity is increasingly becoming a problem for Western societies, to the extent that politicians, scientists, patient organisations and the media now refer to it as 'the obesity epidemic'. Concerns about the damaging effect of increasing body weight on public health has led to a strong growth in the amount of scientific work on the condition, with the medical professions leading the way. This a...

Ethical considerations for designing GBS maternal vaccine efficacy trials in low-middle income countries.

Many in the scientific community agree that a randomized, placebo-controlled trial would offer the most scientifically rigorous study design for establishing the efficacy of a Group B Streptococcus (GBS) vaccine administered to pregnant women for the prevention of invasive GBS disease in young infants. There are compelling reasons to conduct such a trial in low-middle income countries (LMICs) w...

Ethical Considerations in HIV preventative vaccine research