Letter: World Medical Association.

Aerospace medical association letter to the editor

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the article “Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts: a cross-sectional descriptive study via anonymous web-based survey” by Wu, et al., [1] 15 December 2016. We are glad the authors chose to investigate the area of pilot mental health and recognized the need to acquire data on the issue directly from sampling pilot populations. The literature on...

Time for an overhaul at the World Medical Association.

On 21 October 2016 Ketan Desai began his one year tenure as president of the World Medical Association. The WMA is formed and funded by 111 national medical associations and describes itself as “an organization promoting the highest possible standards of medical ethics.” The incumbent president, however, is a controversial figure who has been charged with corruption in a Delhi court. Desai has ...

World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects.

Published research in English-language journals are increasingly required to carry a statement that the study has been approved and monitored by an Institutional Review Board in conformance with 45 CFR 46 standards if the study was conducted in the United States. Alternative language attesting conformity with the Helsinki Declaration is often included when the research was conducted in Europe o...

[World Medical Association (AMM). Helsinki Declaration. Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects].

The role of nurses in the Clinical Ethic Committees (ECs) was discussed in a seminar organised by Assistenza Infermieristica e Ricerca and the Mario Negri Research Institute. A recent Italian law of 1998 regulates the functioning and the composition of the local ECs, where at least a nurse must be present. The actual and potential role of the nurses has been discussed from different points of v...

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