Ethical issues and Huntington's disease

Applying Bioinfomatics Strategies in Huntingtons Disease Research

Restorative Therapies for Parkinson’s Disease: Ethical Issues

Improved health care and the many therapies and surgery methods for all kinds of previously life-threatening diseases have helped to increase the average lifespan of the world population. As a consequence, the incidence of disease connected with old age, in particular degenerative diseases of the brain, has increased: the human body outlives the normally aging brain. One of these diseases is Pa...

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL STATISTICS

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...

Ethical and legal issues in infectious disease research and control.

Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 7, No. 3 Supplement, June 2001 534 lettuce, strawberries, and broccoli for Salmonella, Shigella, and Escherichia coli O157:H7. To date, 95.4% of these samples have been free of contamination. FDA has worked closely with several countries (e.g., Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras, and Jamaica) to determine their needs and capacities. Examples of training ...

Ethical issues and GenomEUtwin.

The post-genomic era is witnessing a proliferation of large-scale and population based genetic and genomic research projects. Many countries have or are establishing research biobanks and, as with GenomEUtwin, there is great interest in building multinational projects that link genotypic and phenotypic information from different centers. Clearly, the conduct of these projects raises multiple et...