background: local ethical committees in medical sciences in iran were established in 1999 in order to assess and evaluate the observance of ethical standards throughout the universities and research centers. the purpose of this study is to analyze the situation of local ethical committees in order to develop research ethics guideline. methods: for this cross-sectional study which has been condu...

the challenging nature of neonatal medicine today is intensified by modern advances in intensive care and treatment of sicker neonates. these developments have caused numerous ethical issues and conflicts in ethical decision-making. the present study surveyed the challenges and dilemmas from the viewpoint of the neonatal intensive care personnel in the teaching hospitals of tehran university of...

The European Ethical Review Committee, which concerns itself with the standards applicable to clinical trials with medicinal products, was established in 1977 and, as the name suggests, draws its membership from the countries of Europe. Its structure comprises a Board and panels of experts representing internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, general practice, nursing, legal and lay persons. B...

OBJECTIVES To show that a Local Research Ethics Committee (LREC) can carry out an audit of ethical standards in research. To find out if a researcher met certain ethical standards in recruiting subjects for clinical trials and in obtaining their consent. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SETTING Clinical research by one doctor during one year. SUBJECTS Eleven patients entered in clinical trial...

From the first reading I liked this report because it does what all good reports should do: it takes a complex subject – pronuclear transfer (PNT) and maternal spindle transfer (MST) explains it clearly (chapter 2), considers the ethical pros and cons for its use (chapter 4) in a particular context – the prevention of debilitating mitochondrial disease (chapter 1) in a measured way and, finally...

BACKGROUND All research involving human participants should be reviewed by a competent and independent institutional research and ethics committee. Research conducted at Makerere University College of Health Sciences should be subjected to a rigorous review process by the ethics committee in order to protect human participants' interests, rights and welfare. OBJECTIVE To evaluate researchers'...