FDA finds U.S. drug research firm faked documents
(Reuters) – Drug companies that had medicines tested by contractor Cetero Research might have to reevaluate results, U.S. regulators warned after the firm was found faking documents and manipulating...
View ArticleHarvard Doctor Turns Felon After Lure of Insider Trading
[Bloomberg] From the age of six, Joseph F. “Chip” Skowron III aspired to be a doctor. At Yale, he earned both a medical degree and a doctorate in molecular and cellular biology, then qualified for...
View ArticlePresident of the Association for Medical Ethics and other Physicians Call for...
[BUSINESS WIRE] In a letter sent yesterday to the White House, Charles D. Rosen, MD, President (2005-2011) and Co-Founder of the Association for Medical Ethics, joins with other physicians calling for...
View ArticleDrowned in a Stream of Prescriptions
[NY Times] VIRGINIA BEACH — Every morning on her way to work, Kathy Fee holds her breath as she drives past the squat brick building that houses Dominion Psychiatric Associates. It was there that her...
View ArticleIVF Parents Lose $10m Wrongful Birth Case, Hit With Legal Costs
[The Sydney Morning Herald] The parents of a severely disabled boy have lost a $10 million case against an IVF specialist who failed to properly warn them of the likelihood their son would inherit a...
View ArticleDoctors’ Diagnostic Errors Are Often Not Mentioned But Can Take A Serious Toll
[Kaiser Health News] Until it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn’t think much about the problem of misdiagnosis....
View ArticleTelemedicine & Telehealth: The New Bioethics Battleground
Original commentary by BEI Young Professionals member Stephanie Zawada. The advancement of technology has brought about a new frontier in collaborative healthcare. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and...
View ArticleNew rule allows patients to get test results directly from labs, without...
[Washington Post] Patients may obtain their test results directly from the laboratory that produced them, without having to go through their doctors, under regulations announced Monday by the Obama...
View ArticleGuidance published on informing study participants about findings with...
[Wellcome Trust] In the course of a study involving human participants, it is possible that researchers may make a finding that has potential health or reproductive implications for an individual...
View ArticleMerck Says It Regrets Strong-Arming Italian Researcher
[Forbes] Merck says that it “regrets” using legal threats to push a leading Italian researcher to muffle his public critiques of one of the company’s cholesterol drugs. Merck spokesman Steve Cragle...
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