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Vol. 43, No. 2

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Public Citizen: The SUPPORT Study was Even Worse than We Thought

Michael Carome and Sidney Wolfe, 05/21/2013
In his April 18 Bioethics Forum article, John Lantos criticized the findings of the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protectio...
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The SUPPORT Study and the Standard of Care

Lois Shepherd, 05/17/2013
The clinical research community and a number of prominent bioethicists have swiftly come to the defense of investigators conducting the SUPPORT study, in which...
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Public Citizen and Misinformed Consent in Neonatal Intensive Care

John D. Lantos, 05/16/2013
Public Citizen, the so-called “citizen’s advocacy group,” continues to criticize the NIH-sponsored clinical trials of oxygen therapy for premature babies.  The...
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Bioethics Forum, the blog of the Hastings Center Report, publishes thoughtful commentary from a range of perspectives on timely issues in bioethics. The opinions expressed in it are those of the authors and not The Hastings Center.
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As Harvard Closes a Primate Research Center, Are Lab Chimps Becoming a Thing of the Past?
Bryan Walsh, TIME
"While there is real benefit to primate research, it will need to be balanced against the very real rights of our evolutionary cousins."

“Good patients” Cover Their Emotional Cracks
Shara Yurkiewicz, Scientific American
"We are kidding ourselves if we think that patients don’t sense this timing crapshoot: when it’s okay to show emotional cracks and when it is deemed a nuisance.  So they decide not to show them at all."

‘Corrective Action’ in Markingson Trial Case
Cody Nelson & Katherine Lym, Minnesota Daily
"A state board has issued 'corrective action' against the University of Minnesota study coordinator in a 2003 research trial that led to the suicide of participant Dan Markingson."

Psychiatrist Contends the Field Is ‘Committing Professional Suicide’
Maia Szalavitz, TIME
"The conflicts throughout medicine — not just in psychiatry — are clear. In 2004 alone, pharmaceutical companies spent about $58 billion on marketing, 87% of which was aimed squarely at the roughly 800,000 Americans with the power to prescribe drugs."