Articles related to "Research Ethics"

Researchers must uniformly follow standards of professional conduct to ensure the welfare of research participants and the integrity of social science research.

Many opponents of abortion and stem cell research believe that both procedures involve taking life. Yet, the two procedures have differing ethical rationales.

Stem cells from a person's skin, bone marrow and nose are being used to develop treatments without the ethical and health-risk complications of embryonic cells.

Heightened global concern about ethical behavior leads new standards of social responsibility and a university response focused on ethics training, courses and education.

Ethical field research in the Native community depends on a foundation of long-term commitment and good collaborative decision-making by researchers.

The concepts of setting, plot, character and conflict are good instructional teaching strategies to use when analyzing the moral dilemmas found in real life.

Although U.S. physicians claimed to follow Nuremberg Code principles, a 1966 article by Henry K. Beecher raised serious questions about medical ethics since 1945.

Chronic exposure to lead causes many health problems in children. In 1993, the high costs of lead abatement encouraged the EPA to fund a controversial research project.

In 1959, Henry K. Beecher published the first of a series of articles on the ethics of human experimentation.

Medicine is governed by laws designed to prevent research abuses. Nevertheless, unethical experimentation continues on vulnerable populations such as the terminally ill.

Although formed as a non-profit organization in 1949, the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) has played an important role in bioethics.

The National Research Act (1974) set forth ethical principles for research on human subjects. Three additional initiatives followed to put those principles into practice.

While "sexting" may not be as common as sensationalist media would have many believe, it still presents real dangers.