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Recent years have seen growing international debate about the ethics of conducting medical research in the developing world, with concern that research participants have been exploited in the past.
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Better regulation needed for medical research in China
China must be more vigilant in regulating medical research to protect research participants, say Wang Ruotao and Gail E. Henderson.
Time to turn words into deeds on health research
African ministers have committed themselves to a set of actions to boost health research in their countries. Now they must implement them.
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.
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
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