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Pakistani medical labs lax on biosafety, survey finds

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

8 February 2012 | EN

Hospital beds

Fines expose failings in policing of Indian drug trials

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

17 January 2012 | EN

Clinical trial

US 'should be more open' to other nations' trial ethics

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

20 December 2011 | EN | ES

A blow to promising HIV microbicide gel

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

Source: Science NOW

29 November 2011 | EN

Vaccination campaign in Africa

Report urges regional collaboration on clinical trials

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

1 November 2011 | EN | FR

Researcher in Guatemala

Online forum seeks to boost work of ethics committees

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

7 October 2011 | EN | ES

Llamada de Barack Obama a Álvaro Colom

US confirms serious abuses in trials in Guatemala

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

Source: Proceso

4 September 2011 | ES

Ethical violations in HPV vaccine trials, says committee

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

Source: The Hindu

20 May 2011 | EN

India questions 'superbug' conclusions, research ethics

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

8 April 2011 | EN

Pakistan orders fresh trials on local hepatitis drug

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

3 February 2011 | EN

Cholera patient in Haiti

Cholera vaccines 'effective even after outbreak begins'

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

26 January 2011 | EN | ES | 中文

A TB patient

Many TB tests don't work, says WHO

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

Source: The Lancet

11 January 2011 | EN

Presidente Álvaro Colom

Guatemala investigates cases of syphilis caused by the US

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

Source: BMJ y BBC

14 October 2010 | ES

Nicosan drug packaging

Sufferers urge progress on sickle cell drug Nicosan

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

30 July 2010 | EN | FR

New WHO resolution on Chagas: pros and cons

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

2 June 2010 | ES

India halts HPV programme

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

9 April 2010 | EN

Qiu Renzong

Ethics prize goes to Chinese scientist

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

12 January 2010 | EN | 中文

Unauthorised HIV trial questions ethics processes

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

29 January 2009 | EN | ES | 中文

intravenous drip

Medic charged with unauthorised drug trials in Malawi

Authorities have uncovered what they say are illegal and unsupervised drug trials on HIV positive cancer patients in Malawi.

12 November 2008 | EN

Vitamins

South African court bans trial of 'vitamin HIV cure'

The Cape Town High Court has banned two doctors from conducting unauthorised trials of vitamins they claim cure HIV/AIDS.

Source: Health-e

18 June 2008 | EN | 中文