Research Protection and Bioethics in the News

Judge Roils Stem-Cell Research. Laura Meckler, Gautam Naik, and Brent Kendall. The Wall Street Journal. 2010-08-24
URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703846604575447862736265280.html

New Hope in Fatigue Fight. Amy Dockser Marcus. The Wall Street Journal. 2010-08-24
URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703846604575447744076968322.html

What to Tell the Patients After a Trial Goes Awry. Gina Kolata. The New York Times. 2010-08-23
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/health/24alzheimers.html

FDA halts Broomfield stem cell clinic. Hendrik Sybrandy. KWGN Channel 2 Denver 2010-08-21
URL: http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-stem-cell-halt-txt,0,5670632.story

Disturbing suicide tale: U of M professor reexamines ethics questions of drug trial. Susan Perry. MinnPost. 2010-08-20
URL: http://www.minnpost.com/healthblog/2010/08/20/20742/disturbing_suicide_tale_u_of_m_professor_reexamines_ethics_questions_of_drug_trial

Jailed psychiatrist pleads guilty. Associated Press. 2010-08-20
URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/38783181

Universities, Scientists Urge NIH to Narrow Conflicts Rule. Jocelyn Kaiser. ScienceInsider. 2010-08-20
URL: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/universities-scientists-urge-nih.html

Harvard Dean Confirms Misconduct in Hauser Investigation. Greg Miller. ScienceInsider. 2010-08-20
URL: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/harvard-dean-confirms-misconduct.html

Glaxo Memo on Avandia Is Questioned. Gardiner Harris. The New York Times. 2010-08-19
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/health/policy/20fda.html

U.S. Inquiry of Drug Makers Is Widened. Gardiner Harris and Natasha Singer. The New York Times. 2010-08-13
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/health/policy/14drug.html

After Avandia: Does the FDA Have a Drug Problem? Massimo Calabresi with Alice Park. Time Magazine. 2010-08-12
URL: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2010028,00.html

UC Berkeley drops plans to release personal genetic information to incoming freshmen. Lisa M. Krieger. San Jose Mercury News. 2010-08-12
URL: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15762462?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1

Drug regulator seeks inquiry into Bhopal clinical trial. Radhieka Pandeya. Livemint.com 2010-08-05
URL: http://www.livemint.com/2010/08/04215714/Drug-regulator-seeks-inquiry-i.html?atype=tp

FDA proposes stricter rules on approving medical devices. Deborah L. Shelton. The Chicago Tribune. 2010-08-04
URL: http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-medical-device-controversy-20100804,0,824526.story

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News Outlets

• American Medical News
• AP Medical News
• BBC Health
• Bioethics.net Blog
• Courthouse News Service
• FDA News
• FiercePharma
• Google News
• Health Care Compliance Association
• Health News Florida
• Kaiser Health News
• Los Angeles Times Health
• Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry
• MedPage Today Medical News
• Medicalaw.net Recent Legal Opinions
• Minneapolis Star Tribune
• New York Times Health
• Pharmalot (Back Online in Fall 2009. Te Deum Laudamus)
• Practical Ethics
• The Scientist
• Science
• ScienceInsider
• The Wall Street Journal Health Blog
• Washington Post Health

U.S. Federal Agencies

• Department of Health and Human Services News and Public Affairs
• Department of Justice United States Attorneys' Offices Websites and Press Releases
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) News Releases

Good Reading

• Reporting on Health Blog: The Antidote
• Bioethics Forum
• Clinical Trials Today
• COPE Committee on Publication Ethics Blog
• Disclosure of Drug Company Payments to Doctors (Senator Charles Grassley, index of related news stories)
• FDA Law Blog
• FDA Matters
• Health Care Renewal Blog
• PharmaGossip
• PLos Medicine's Daily Click
• Respectful Insolence Blog
• Science Based Medicine Blog
• Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog
• Schwitzer Health News Blog
• Slate Health and Science

More Good Reading

• AllAfrica.com Health and Medicine
• Applied Clinical Trials
• Bad Science
• Baltimore Sun
• Bloomberg News
• Cafepharma
• Carlat Psychiatry Blog
• Eye on FDA
• Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience Blog
• Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma
• Improbable (Bad) Science
• In the Pipeline
• In Vivo Blog
• Inside Higher Ed
• UK Guardian Health
• Life Science News Briefs (Industry Canada)
• Miami Herald
• NHS Doctor Blog
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• A Photon in the Darkness Blog
• Scientific American
• Scientific Misconduct Blog
• Spiked MMR
• St. Paul Pioneer Press
• St. Petersburg Times
• Treatment Action Campaign
• WorldNews   |   WorldNews Science

Of Interest

• Marusic M. Reviewer's Report: A systematic review of how homeopathy is represented in conventional and CAM peer reviewed journals. BMJ Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2005-04-25. Accessed on 2006-07-28 at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/imedia/1162554431678031_comment.pdf
  • Caulfield T, DeBow S. A systematic review of how homeopathy is represented in conventional and CAM peer reviewed journals. BMJ Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2005;5:12. Accessed on 2006-07-28 at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/5/12
• National Association of Science Writers. Reporting Cancers Cures Pt. 1. National Association of Science Writers web site. Undated. Accessed on 2007-02-13 at: http://web.archive.org/web/20021202070145/http://nasw.org/cancer1.htm
  • Part 2: http://web.archive.org/web/20040811160056/nasw.org/cancer2.htm
  • Part 3: http://web.archive.org/web/20040811161450/nasw.org/cancer3.htm

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Last Updated on: 2010-08-24

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