[Global health--the ethical responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry].

The Collaboration of National and International Centers in Health Care Researches: Some Ethical Issues

This article reviews some of the ethical aspects of collaborative research or collaboration of national and international centers in health car researches. Scientific collaborations are of potential advantages, but, it’s a challenging task to successfully accomplish a collaborative research on ethically sound grounds. Current trends in international collaborative healthcare researches reflect l...

WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on public health, innovation and intellectual property.

The inaccessibility of medicines in lowand middle-income countries poses serious human rights and developmental challenges for Governments and international organizations, as well as raising grave ethical and human rights questions about the responsibilities of the research and development-based pharmaceutical industry. In response to this human rights and public-health dilemma, there has been ...

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

Identifying and Ranking of Ethical Components in the Electronic Banking Industry

Background: Electronic banking is one of the new topics related to both technology and finance. The purpose of this research is to identify and rank the ethical components in the electronic banking industry. Method: The present study is descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this research is experts in the field of marketing, development and improvement of E-Banking services in Teja...

[Commentary on the article "Bioethical problems in researching new vaccines: Do they respond to public health reasons?"].

The ethical problems in vaccine research have grown in frequency and magnitude in last decades, due to the dominant place of the pharmaceutical industry in the development of such studies. Traditional issues of security and efficacy have been aggravated by the conflicts of interests introduced by commercial competition in a global market worth billions of dollars. We present here a few examples...