Articles related to "Vulnerable Population"

Prior to the adoption of the Nuremberg Code, most human experimentation was performed on vulnerable people who were least likely to give voluntary consent for research.

Will today's economic funding cuts to programs which serve the vulnerable population be the impetus to increased patient abuse and neglect cases?

Today's economy will drastically affect the nation's vulnerable population. What can be done within our communities and Government to prevent patient abuse and neglect?

Nearly 20 years after the Nuremberg Code, a New York physician named Chester Southam injected live cancer cells into patients without their consent.

The Nuremberg Code of 1947 set forth 10 basic principles regarding human experimentation, but the medical profession needed something less legalistic and more practical.

As a physician, Henry K. Beecher understood all too well the problems associated with clinical research. In 1966, he published some guiding principles for researchers.

Following the publication of his first article on human experimentation, Henry K. Beecher returned to the problem of informed consent in a 1962 editorial.

The Nuremberg Code (1947) is considered the starting point for human experimentation ethics, but strict guidelines and medical regulations existed in Germany before 1933.

In 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a controversial research study designed to test pesticide exposure levels in children.

Medical research on human subjects often has been unrestrained by codes or regulations. One vulnerable population affected by unethical research is foster children.

Although informed consent is designed to protect individuals from unauthorized experimentation, the principle is a modern phenomenon that is not universally accepted.

Placebos have a valid role in medical research, but their use is restricted to specific circumstances that researchers sometimes ignore, as in a Uganda clinical trial.

Vulnerable populations get H1N1 vaccinations first, but supplies are low. Swine flu vaccine shortages leave patients waiting to get infected with the swine flu virus.

Codes and regulations were designed to protect human subjects in medical research. Despite laws, unethical experimentation continues on four vulnerable populations.

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

The Yellow Dog Plains, one of Michigan's last large natural areas, may be subject to acid (sulfide) mining.

An assessment of the impact of the proposed Healthy Families Act finds that paid sick leave would improve public health and reduce overall health care costs.

2009 flu vaccinations will protect against swine flu, H1N1 (source: cdc.gov). Learn where to get swine flu vaccines; unemployed Americans can get free flu shots at CVS.

Insite, North America's only safe-injection centre is slated to close on September 12, 2006, but aren't we morally obligated to keep it open?

Dr. Oz reported that, according to medical professionals, the second wave of the swine flu is coming. He informed viewers of the symptoms of H1N1 and how to prevent it.

H.R. 627 imposes new rules, forbidding practices that increase credit card debt, including double-billing, interest rate increases, and unlimited over-the-limit fees.

In order for disabled persons to have equal access to activities and services that the able-bodied take for granted, their special needs must be addressed.

The presence of living H1N1 virus in the nasal spray vaccine poses risks. Weak immune response can result in infection by the inhaled version of the swine flu vaccine.

Meals on Wheels has an ambitious mission: "No senior goes hungry." Nutrition needs of older adults affect all ages, ethnic, and economic levels.

Baby boomers battered by the economy might look to new growth fields for future job creation: preventive health care, food safety, and energy-saving retrofitting of homes

Experts on health and climate change convene to help develop recommendations on how to prioritize health research and risk management in the face of climate change.

Canada recommends the H1N1 flu vaccine for pregnant women, young children, health care workers, those with chronic health problems and those in contact with infants.

With the advent of a new school year and "flu" season , increasing dietary zinc intake or taking zinc supplements seems a prudent health strategy.

There has been considerable neurosis surrounding the discovery of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Virus and the first reported death in Mexico - pandemic or pandemonium?