Activities
The Center’s Dr. Meg Gaffney and her husband and teaching partner, Dr. Matthew Galvin, recently began a 6 week seminar series on Understanding Conscience in Ethics and Faith Experience at Trinity Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. The short course is offered for all persons at Trinity Church who are interested in conscience development and functioning, and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘REND’
October 29, 2009
Center News, October 2009
October 28, 2009
Not Reporting Harm: CONSORT and Clinical Trials
In 2004 an extension to Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) to aid in the reporting of adverse events was published (see: Ioannidis JP. PubMed PMID: 15545678), but did it work? Are the studies published in leading medical journals doing a better job of reporting negative “side effects” in clinical trials? Not according to a [...]
October 20, 2009
Virtue Ethics for CBPR? Research Ethics in the Academic Literature
Community-based participatory research (CBPR), by definition, includes communities as partners in the research process. Therefore, although individual research participants (also known as “human subjects”) may be sufficiently protected, the barriers and risks of full community participation will also need to be addressed. Are the ethical principles of “autonomy,” “nonmaleficence,” “beneficence,” and “justice” enough or do [...]
October 13, 2009
OHRP, Columbia and Hetastarch: Research Ethics in the News
Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee, in investigative coverage published by the Huffington Post, report that the Office of Human Research Protections have requested Columbia University to notify research subjects that they may “have suffered harms that were a function of the design and procedures of [a] study” conducted a decade ago. According to the Huffington [...]
September 30, 2009
Center News, September 2009
This month Indiana University Center for Bioethics worked with its collaborators to launch two new initiatives: an International Research Ethics concentration (a new track in the Masters degree offered by the Department of Philosophy) and the Comparative Effectiveness Study Group. The International Research Ethics (IRE) concentration offers students and professionals the opportunity to study the [...]
September 24, 2009
Peer Review: Research Ethics in the News
Earlier this month, The Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication (PRC) met in Vancouver. Sessions and posters addressed a number of research ethics issues, including: ghost writing, ethical and editorial standards, conflicts of interest, bias and “spin”, clinical trials registration, and quality reporting. Of these, the topic of ghost writing in medicine, [...]
September 15, 2009
Syphilis, Lead Paint and the IRB: Research Ethics in the Academic Literature
Many of the current human subject protections were formed with the disastrous consequences of the well-known Tuskegee Syphilis Study in mind. While we all hope that these rules have made the practice of human subjects research safer, they cannot prevent future disasters without the reliable performance of the individuals and organizations. The Kennedy Krieger Institute [...]
September 9, 2009
NSF Requires Ethics Education: Research Ethics in the News
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will require all institutions applying for funding to provide ethics education for grantees. The new requirement, reported in the Federal Register [August 20, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 160), 42126-42128], will go into effect on January 4, 2010. At that time, grant proposals to NSF must describe “a plan to provide [...]
August 27, 2009
Mitochondrial Gene Replacement and Egg Manipulation: Research Ethics in the News
Researchers in Oregon have transferred DNA from the nucleus of one macaque monkey egg and deposited it in another egg prior to fertilization. The results? Baby macaques born free of inherited defects in mitochondrial DNA—including twins, Mito and Tracker. The full method is reported in August 26 online edition of the journal Nature. In the [...]
August 19, 2009
Disclosing Adverse Clinical Trials Results: Research Ethics in the Academic Literature
In a recent “target article” for an AJOB Open Peer Commentary, S. Matthew Liao, Mark Sheehan and Steve Clarke make a case for a moral duty to disclose all adverse clinical trial results to potential participants. They argue, in short, that consent is not “informed” when participants lack risk information. Pharmaceutical companies, however, have an [...]
