News tagged with ethical policies
Policy: Sex abuse by doctors 'profound betrayal'
(AP) -- The nation's largest pediatricians' group has issued its first policy on protecting children from sexual abuse by doctors, citing a recent Delaware case and urging medical facilities to screen employees for previous ...
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Tighter ethics rules have reduced industrial relationship of NIH scientists
The 2005 ethics rules that govern relationships between researchers within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other industrial companies have significantly reduced the prevalence ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Researchers find clear difference in quality, type of lung cancer info available in US and Japan
A study published in the July 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology revealed that internet-based lung cancer information was of a higher quality in the United States (US) than in Japan. Dr. Yasushi Goto of the Na ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Researchers weigh in on ethics of H5N1 research
(Medical Xpress) -- In a commentary on the biosecurity controversy surrounding publication of bird flu research details, a bioethicist and a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins reaffirm that "all scientists have an affirmativ ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Psychologists debate social media role in suicide interventions
In her sophomore year at Lake Forest College, Sam Sekulich had reached a breaking point. On top of the pressure she felt from classes and student clubs, she was fighting with her parents and not consistently taking medication ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Justifying insurance coverage for orphan drugs
How can insurers justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient per year on "orphan drugs" – extremely expensive medications for rare conditions that are mostly chronic and life-threatening -- when this ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor
(AP) -- Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that ...
Jan 28, 2012 |
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5 Questions: Magnus on the role of research ethics consultations
In the past decade, a growing number of academic medical centers have begun offering research ethics consultation services, in which bioethics experts help scientists address the ethical and societal implications of their ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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The price of your soul: How the brain decides whether to 'sell out'
An Emory University neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 22, 2012 |
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The opposite of evil: Google named best place to work in America
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place to work in America.
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Expert says lessons should be learned from breast implant crisis
The social, and psychological reasons women have breast implant surgery are complex and multi-faceted says Professor Julie Kent a sociologist from the Center for Health & Clinical Research at UWE Bristol. These considerations, ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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NREL helping Virgin Islands cut fuel use
The U.S. Virgin Islands are a great place to visit, but you wouldn't want to pay energy bills there.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Law professor investigates rise of corporate social responsibility in China
(PhysOrg.com) -- It might come as a surprise to learn that corporate social responsibility is on the rise in China, a country where manufacturers pollute nearby communities, labor protests have made global headlines, and ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 10, 2012 |
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