To the Editor: Perhaps no part of the criminal justice system is more fraught with moral, ethical and legal dilemmas than the execution process. The paramount concern of the blue-ribbon Death Penalty Committee of The Constitution Project is to ensure this system is as fair and transparent as possible and comports with the numerous protections found in the US Constitution. As Dr Truog and collea...

fracture line. The therapy for the navicular insufficiency fracture was performed non-operatively. Previously, we had experienced that conservative therapy for insufficiency fractures in patients with RA was an efficient treatment. A non-displaced fracture should be treated with conservative therapy if the patient is unable to be very active. The ethical committee of Hamamatsu University School...

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND PROMOTER Giovanni Merolla Co-investigator: Giuseppe Porcellini Investigation performed at Biomechanics Laboratory "Marco Simoncelli", D. Cervesi Hospital, Cattolica - Italy PLAN OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION (PCI): Version 1.0 of December 10, 2012 Approved by AV/IRST Ethical Committee (Comitato Etico Area Vasta Romagna) Reg. Sperimentazioni 914 Prot. N°: 1785/2013/I.5/46.

A number of medical and public policies are recommended in the revised statement on surrogate motherhood by the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), 1 which expands and replaces the original committee opinion of 1983. Some of the implications with respect to the physician-patient relationship have been laid out in the updated statement, whereas ...

The creation of a national ethics committee in Britain has been proposed to overcome some of the problems that researchers conducting multi-center trials encounter in dealing with numerous local ethics committees. Drury identifies three disadvantages to this proposal: 1) it might weaken the authority of local committees; 2) the present system works well by creating ad hoc ethics committees to...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is poised to lift its funding moratorium on research involving chimeric human/nonhuman embryos, pending further consideration by an NIH steering committee. The kinds of ethical concerns that seem to underlie this research and chimera research more generally can be adequately addressed.

629 ©2011 Society For Biomaterials Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest or any financial benefit is required from all co-authors. Any experiments involving the use of animals were conducted in accordance with the principles of Laboratory Animal care and were approved by the Ethical Committee of the Faculty of Pharmacy ,Cairo University, Egypt.

In Victoria, decisions regarding late termination of pregnancy no longer involve just pregnant women and their clinicians. At two major women's hospitals, committees now govern the decision-making process for approval of a late termination of pregnancy. The legal and ethical implications of clinical decision-making by committee need to be widely debated.

After the declaration of world-wide smallpox eradication in 980, the World Health Assembly (WHO) has repeatedly called for estruction of all known remaining stocks of the smallpox virus [1]. fficially, only theUS andRussia have smallpox stocks, and neither, eferencing the value of their research agendas, have destroyed heir stocks. In response, WHO established an Advisory Committee n Variola Vi...

Given the focus on health systems in the post-millennium development goal era and moving towards the sustainable development goals, there is a compelling need for a common framework for health policy and systems research ethics to guide researchers and facilitate review by research ethics committees. A consultation of global health policy and systems research and ethics experts was convened to ...