Friday 23 December 2011

Government Agencies-Presidential Panel-Basic Information-Human Subjects

U.S. panel raps how agencies handle human research

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Government Agencies fund thousands of studies on Human Subjects, but do not have a very good handle on the Basic Information about that research -- possibly putting participants in harm's way, a Presidential Panel of reviewers has found. The presidential bioethics commission looked into the current protections for human subjects in a review triggered by evidence of unethical behavior in a 1940s experiment that deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with sexually transmitted disease. The commission earlier this year concluded that U.S. ... read more..

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