Key influences may be hard to identify. In this personal paper I reflect on the role of the Chair of the Committee for Ethical Issues in Medicine (CEIM) and on ethical issues that have involved the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). The committee has a diverse membership including several distinguished figures from outside medicine. In order to fulfil additional responsibilities the committee c...

ARI: Acute Respiratory Infections; URTIs: Upper Respiratory Tract Infections; IVs: Influenza Viruses; RSV: Respiratory Syncytial Virus; PIVs: Parainfluenza Viruses; KIPyV: KI Polyomaviruses; WUPyV: WU Polyomaviruses; hMPV: human Metapneumovirus; KEMRI: Kenya Medical Research Institute; GC: Gonococci ; WHO: World Health Organization; CDC; Centers for Disease Control; cDNA: complimentary DNA; RT-...

All members of the ethical committee on publication of the Korean Radiological Society agreed that the two papers belong to the category of redundant publication.

Ethical review by expert committee continues to be the first line of defence when it comes to protecting human subjects recruited into clinical trials. Drawing on a large scale study of biomedical experimentation across South Asia, and specifically on interviews with 24 ethical review committee [ERC] members across India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, this article identifies some of the tensions that em...

medical associations initiating the revision of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration, accepted the revised declaration in November 1975. Since then it has been considered a norm for Danish doctors engaged in biomedical research. As a consequence several independent ethical committees have to be established, and such committees represent an innovation in Danish scientific life. A preparatory group was ...

In recent years, various ethical issues have arisen in the field of medical practice because of the dramatic changes in medical technology and diversity among the different population. It is generally believed that nurses often find themselves in ethical dilemmas because of their closeness to their patients. In this study, we examined nursing professionals' awareness about ethical issues and ex...

background: the increased recognition of ethical problems has contributed to the resurgence of ethics in relation to health care, and to the emergence of medical ethics as a new collaborative discipline in the world. the growing trends in biomedical technologies have been associated with increasing discussions about ethical aspects of the new knowledge in different societies. advances in geneti...

In recent decades, there has been a revision of the role of institutional review boards with the intention of protecting human subjects from harm and exploitation in research. Informed consent aims to protect the subject by explaining all of the benefits and risks associated with a specific research project. To date, there has not been a review published analyzing issues of informed consent in ...