MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'experimentation'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:39:18 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4022915&cid=t_160024_87_f&fid=39261&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvactruth.com%2F2010%2F10%2F01%2Fhillary-clinton-and-kathleen-sebelius-apologize-for-guatemalan-syphilis-experiment%2F Christina England Vactruth.com 10/01/2010 Today finally sees two of the USA’s most prominent women in politics finally apologize for one of the most cruel and despicable experiments ever carried out on man to date. Mind you, it only took the USA seven decades to offer one. The experiment, carried out in the 1940′s, was the barbaric and deliberate act of inoculating prisoners, soldiers and mental patients with the killer disease syphilis, without their knowledge or permission. This was one of the most barbaric and cruel acts of human power ever recorded. // Information on the experiment was discovered by Susan Reverby, a professor of Women’s Studies at Wellesley College. Reverby says the “syphilis inoculation project” was co-sponsored by the U.S. Public Heal... vactruth.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4022915 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:40:13 +0100 4022915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3275770&cid=t_160024_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2Fdh0EGe4vrZA%2Fhela-cells-and-immortal-life-of.html I had the pleasure of being one of the fact-checkers and proof reviewers on Rebecca Skloot's book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and I'm pleased to see that it is now on the NY Times Bestseller list and that Rebecca is well into her book tour.   Rebecca retells the story of Henrietta Lacks and her family and masterfully weaves it into compelling story, that rivets your attention and illustrates just how far we've come in and how far yet we have to go in human subject experimentation.   Here is a short excerpt to whet your appetite: [On January 29, 1951, David Lacks sat behind the wheel of his old Buick, watching the rain fall. He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children—two still in diapers—waiting for t... Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3275770 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:30:05 +0100 3275770 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2270315&cid=t_160024_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fscientists-as-guinea-pigs%2F How far would you go to find the answers to a medical mystery? Would you go as far as Stubbins Ffirth, a 19th century doctor who smeared himself with vomit and other bodily fluids from yellow-fever suffers to prove it wasn’t a contagious disease? Or tape a sample of radium salts to your arm for 10 hours as Pierre Cuire did in his desire to find out how radiation might help in the treatment of cancer? Probably not. Read more about these and other extraordinary scientists who put their lives on the line for the sake of knowledge at New Scientist’s fascinating (and somewhat gross) article Eight scientists who became their own guinea pigs. (image by Gaetan Lee) (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2270315 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:11:30 +0100 2270315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232375&cid=t_160024_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F03%2Fpushing-to-experiment-on-alzheimers.html This article is just the latest in a growing chorus to instrumentalize the cognitively devastated, such as the call to use unconscious patients in animal organ transplant experiments. The issue isn't whether some Alzheimer's patients might be indirectly benefited along with other elderly people, from the treatment of heart disease or eye maladies. The issue is that they have no ability to defend themselves. No matter the soothing bioethicseze of "social justice" employed to rationalize the proposal, Wall's suggestion actually seeks to justify the instrumental use of the weak by the strong. As such, it should be rejected in the most blunt and unequivocal terms. (Source: Secondhand Smoke) Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232375 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:00:00 +0100 2232375 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2163645&cid=t_160024_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E5%2F532604878%2FClinical_Trial_Report.pdf [Courtesy of Alicia Ouellette] The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has handed down a case of major importance in research ethics and international law. The case is Rabi Abdullahi v. Pfizer. The plaintiffs are Nigerian children and their families who were subjected to medical experimentation in Nigeria by drug manufacturer Pfizer. Specifically, the children were among two hundred sick children in Nigeria given the experimental antibiotic Trovan as part of a protocol designed to test the efficacy of Trovan against that of a standard antibiotic treatment. The plaintiffs sought, and won, the right to sue Pfizer in federal court for damages caused by Pfizer's involuntary medical experimentation. The decision is legally significant for its holding that nonconsensual exp... Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2163645 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:37:20 +0100 2163645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2132237&cid=t_160024_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2Fvirginia-senate-bill-1142-paving-way.html A correspondent--who is a disability rights activist--alerted me to SB 1142, a proposal in Virginia to overhaul its law concerning advance directives. There are several things in the bill that concern me, but she wrote worrying that it would open the door to experimenting on the incapacitated and the dying.She is right--the bill authorizes signers of advance directives who become incapacitated to be experimented upon if the named surrogate decision maker consents--even if the experiments are not intended to provide them any help at all. From the bill:Section: 54.12983.1. An advance directive may authorize an agent to approve participation by the declarant in any health care study approved by an institutional review board pursuant to applicable federal regulations, or by a research review c... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2132237 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:33:00 +0100 2132237 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1082108&cid=t_160024_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwomensbioethics.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F12%2Fyou-know-youre-bioethicist-when.html (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1082108 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:41:00 +0100 1082108