The economic evaluation of personalised oncology medicines: ethical challenges

Personalised medicines: hopes and realities

Ethical challenges in oncology, explored through a series of vignettes.

The specialty of medical oncology poses many ethical dilemmas to the practicing physician. In this article, we have chosen to focus on three of those challenges, presenting them in the form of vignettes. The first dilemma deals with the difficulties physicians encounter secondary to the rising cost of cancer therapies when choosing and communicating about treatment plans with patients. The seco...

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

Cell therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: some ethical issues for personalised medicines

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a chronic, complex, genetic childhood disease affecting boys, where sufferers typically die in their 20s. DMD is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene and trials are currently underway with exon skipping, a therapy which works by patching the mutation thereby allowing production of a functional gene. The dystrophin gene contains 79 exons and mutations c...

The quality of medicines: an ethical issue?

The Hippocratic maxim, "Do no harm," is a long-standing fundamental principle of medical ethics, encompassing both medical practice and medical research. Yet, not enough attention is given to the implications of this principle for sectors related to medical research and practice, such as the pharmaceutical sector. The regulation of the standards of quality in pharmaceutical production and distr...