Erum Ilyas, MD, discusses ethical considerations for dermatologists to keep in mind before performing aesthetic procedures.

OHRP has experienced an unprecedented exodus of ethics expertise, raising concerns about its ability to effectively protect ...

The case revives painful parallels to Tuskegee and Henrietta Lacks as lawyers allege federal researchers exploited Black ...

A new harmonised template (Version 2.0) for participant recruitment and informed consent is now available for all clinical trials conducted in ...

The state’s biggest law firm has avoided an embarrassing legal fight over whether it broke a fundamental ethics rule by asking former Chief Justice Richard Robinson, then a recently hired partner, to ...

The babies were part of a vaccine trial for a respiratory virus in the 1960s and died shortly after. Their families said they had been unaware of the trial until recently.

Informed consent is the ethical and legal foundation that ensures respect for individual autonomy in clinical research. It requires that potential participants receive clear, comprehensible ...

aDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium bDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium cQuality Assurance Unit, ...

Individual written informed consent may present a barrier to the feasibility and inclusiveness of such low-risk clinical research. Within an overarching moral and ethical framework, the form and ...

Failure to obtain informed consent can result in significant consequences Exceptions to informed consent apply only in limited circumstances Elements of valid informed consent include patient capacity ...

Jan DeFehr argues that ethical practice requires access to what the field itself disputes, including the risks people rarely hear about. Her new book, A Critical Mental Health Primer: Towards Informed ...