A new book, "When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics" (Oxford University Press), by Rebecca Dresser, J.D., professor of law and ethics in medicine at Washington ...

Research organizations can participate in ethical data sharing today by considering participants’ privacy and security and balancing the need to protect their commercial interests with the need ...

Research is also needed to elicit patient, family, and health care professional perspectives on the use of mortality algorithms and to identify other outcomes that should be captured.

Jenny Lloyd, Peter Hopkins, Using interviews to research body size: methodological and ethical considerations, Area, Vol. 47, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2015), pp. 305-310 ...

There is, by now, an enormous literature on the ethics of phase I cancer trials. Yet, methodologies, treatment strategies, and regulatory environment have evolved, as has medicine's appreciation of ...

3 Bateman-House, A., Shah, L.D., Escandon, R. et al. Somatic Gene Therapy Research in Pediatric Populations: Ethical Issues and Guidance for Operationalizing Early Phase Trials.

Synthetic Biology has rapidly evolved into a pioneering "science of synthesis," revolutionizing how we design and engineer life. While these advancements ...

As we struggle to address this unsustainable rise in cancer expenditures, oncology providers are forced to examine practice patterns and their contributions to the overall health care cost burden. The ...