An expert panel will examine charges made by an Indian parliamentary committee of irregularities in approvals for new drugs.

Dozens of NGOs have issued a joint statement urgently calling for the emerging field of synthetic biology to be internationally regulated.

Pakistan's medical laboratory workers need better biosafety awareness says a new study.

Recent scandals have exposed weaknesses in India's ability to police its own doctors as they participate in international drug trials.

US-funded medical trials overseas could follow local ethical procedures if they offer 'equivalent protection', says a report.

A new trial has found that tenofovir gel, previously found to be effective, does not prevent HIV infection.

Joining forces would save countries money on clinical trials, and speed up drug development for neglected diseases, says a report.

A new website aims to improve medical ethics in developing nations by providing information and a forum for discussion.

The bioethics commission has confirmed that between 1946 and 1948 US physicians committed serious abuses during clinical trials held in Guatemala.

An official inquiry into trials of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines has unearthed ethical violations.

India's top medical officials see research and interpretations of the latest 'superbug' study as motivated.

Pakistan will conduct new clinical trials on a controversial, locally-made drug against hepatitis B.

Two studies have shown for the first time that mass vaccination after a cholera outbreak has started can reduce deaths.

Many commercially available TB tests could be worsening the epidemic, says the WHO expert group on TB diagnostics.

Guatemala has received apologies from US President Obama for a 1940s syphilis study and has set up a commission to identify victims.

As supplies of Nicosan, the Nigerian sickle cell drug, run dry, patients are growing desperate for production to resume.

A recent resolution of the WHO to control and eradicate Chagas disease has come in for both praise and criticism from two independent institutions.

The deaths of four girls who participated in HPV vaccine studies has resulted in suspension of the programme.

Qiu Renzong, who won a UNESCO science ethics prize last month, spoke of the "double-edged sword" of developing country science.

The trial of the hospital technician who conducted unauthorised drug trials on patients demonstrates the need for stricter regulations, say ethicists.