*Permission to carry out these drug studies was granted by the Northwick Park Hospital Ethical Committee. steroids. The columns were washed with water and the steroids recovered by elution with ethanol. The ethanol was taken to dryness and the residue dissolved in 0.5M acetate buffer (pH 4.6) and the steroid conjugates were hydrolysed by two enzymes present in snail digestive juice (Helix pomat...

* * In 1976, the Medical Commission ofthe International Olympic Committee formally condemned the practice of blood transfusion for athletes in good health. As ofthis writing, however, blood doping has not been explicitly forbidden. The Author discusses important and controversial questions such as: does blood transfusion afford world-class athletes a substantial competitive advantage? Is this p...

We present a case of a 32-year-old female affected by moderate generalized (MGFA Class IIIb) myasthenia gravis (MG) (Figure 1). She presented with ptosis and generalized weakness and fatigue for the past 10 months. Neurological cl inical evaluation was suggestive for MG, while electromyography and dosage of circulating acetylcholine receptor antibodies were both positive. There was no previous ...

Established in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the Singapore Cabinet in December 2000 to examine the potential ethical, legal, and social issues arising from Singapore's biomedical research sector, and to recommend policy to Singapore's government. BAC's deliberations on embryonic stem cell research [3] ...

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Permission from Konya University Meram Medical Faculty Clinical Research Ethical Committee was taken. The groups were planned to be for 50 patients. An informed consent form was signed by all the patients. The patients were divided into 3 groups (tension free primary closure, Limberg flap, oblique excision and primary closure) by closed envelop method. The envelopes were opened at the operation...

This article is the fourth of a 6-part JAMDA series devoted to medical ethics in the nursing home. In each issue, a case is presented from the Ethics Committee at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged (HRCA) in Boston, Massachusetts. Following a description of the case and a discussion of the ethical issues that the case raises, Dr. Steven Levenson discusses the implications for medical dir...

The AMIA Board of Directors has decided to periodically publish AMIA's Code of Professional Ethical Conduct for its members in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The Code also will be available on the AMIA Web site at www.amia.org as it continues to evolve in response to feedback from the AMIA membership. The AMIA Board acknowledges the continuing work and dedication o...

*Permission to carry out these drug studies was granted by the Northwick Park Hospital Ethical Committee. steroids. The columns were washed with water and the steroids recovered by elution with ethanol. The ethanol was taken to dryness and the residue dissolved in 0.5M acetate buffer (pH 4.6) and the steroid conjugates were hydrolysed by two enzymes present in snail digestive juice (Helix pomat...

UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee included the subject of traditional medicine in its work programme for 2010-2011. A working group was set up and asked to consider the ethical implications of these widespread and highly varied practices, avoiding any overlap with the research being carried out by other United Nations bodies and agencies. In addition, relations were established with in...