AUTHOR'S BIO
Adil E. Shamoo
Adil E. Shamoo is Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal: Accountability in Research.
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Serious Harm By Research
Adil E. Shamoo Series: Health and Medicine 2006-05-29The media, legislators, and other organizations often raise concerns about human-rights violations and ethical breaches in clinical research. Such cases are legion. Human subjects are allowed to be bitten by 100 mosquitoes that could carry malaria in a study in Brazil. A French doctor performs a face transplant without the benefit of the usual research that would accompany such a high-risk procedure. An 18-year-old subject in a gene therapy trial dies, with numerous lapses in the clinical trial noted after his death.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14566
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