WMA to revise medical research guidelines

WMA Guidelines on Promotional Mass Media Appearances by Physicians

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WMA protests at claim that it planned to expel Israeli doctors. World Medical Association.

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...

AIDS: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines.

In the Indian context it is essential to evolve appropriate guidelines for hospital admission of persons with HIV/AIDS so as to ensure that health care services do not get overwhelmed while trying to provide care for HIV/AIDS cases and that persons with all other ailments do get due attention. AIDS patients require hospitalisation for treatment of acute pathogenic or opportunistic infections an...

[Ethics and medical research: principles, guidelines, and regulations].

The issue of ethics in medical research grew in importance at the end of World War II, after the Nuremberg Code. In this period, some cases in the United States had demonstrated the need for the establishment of rules and procedures in medical research. In this article, the authors discuss some ethical concepts and their philosophical basis, stressing aspects related to research. Ethics in medi...