Latest Informed consent Stories
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A jury in Sanford, Fla. ruled in favor of a cosmetic surgeon represented by Steven Lubell, partner and co-founder of the Lubell Rosen medical malpractice defense firm, on April 27, 2013 in a medical malpractice trial. The case was presided over by Judge Debra Nelson, who is also presiding over the George Zimmerman trial, scheduled to start in June. When Zimmerman, accused of killing Florida teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012,...
Reforms needed to rebuild public trust in clinical trials There is worldwide concern in the biomedical research community that enrollment in clinical trials is lagging, putting clinical research and consequent benefits to society in jeopardy. Experts explore ways to embed patient voices and values in clinical research in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Clinical trials of new drugs, devices, or procedures require the active participation of human volunteers. Mark A....
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The researchers behind a large study on the effects of oxygen levels on premature infants have been reprimanded by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for failing to inform the parents of those children of the risks involved with the study. In a letter dated March 7, Lisa R. Buchanan of the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) wrote that a portion of the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) study...
VALENCIA, Calif., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanguine BioSciences, a biotechnology company providing transparency to patients in biomedical research, has announced its plans to deploy its @Home, web-based collection platform using its customized electronic Informed Consent Form. One of the biggest bottlenecks in furthering biomedical research is researcher's access to high quality, verified, and ethically-collected, patient-derived information. Scientists need substantial...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Information is key. That’s the message of a new study that examined past disclosures by physicians. In particular, the researchers discovered that, due to various reasons, doctors don’t disclose all the possible risks associated with certain treatments to their patients. The study, written by international experts from Australia and the U.S., described how doctors are increasingly needed to advise and empower patients to make...
But sex is good for health and wellbeing; formal policies are needed, say specialists Concerns about safety, and ageism, are needlessly denying elderly care home residents what is often one of their few remaining pleasures - the right to consensual sex - say specialists in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Older people, including those with early stage dementia, often continue to enjoy a sexual relationship in their own homes, but once they move into residential care, lawful and consensual...
HOUSTON, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, April 23rd, Aptia Systems, Inc. presented at the FDA's hearing titled "Modernizing the Regulation of Clinical Trials and Approaches to Good Clinical Practices". Mr. Royce Heslep, President and CEO of Aptia Systems, Inc., spoke on using technology to improve gathering and managing the informed consent process. Mr. Heslep spoke on the benefits of various technologies to improve communications with research subjects, reduce waste in the...
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) applauds the magnificent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit this morning, which affirmed the strengthening of informed consent contained in the amended Texas Woman's Right to Know Act. Specifically, the Fifth Circuit upheld the "sonogram law" that was enacted in May 2011. This law helps ensure that women will be fully informed before agreeing to...
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Outcomes Sciences, LLC (HOS), (http://www.h-outcomes.com) the company behind the breakthrough predictive modeling solution called ePRISM, released its findings yesterday at a Late Breaking Clinical Trial session at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions Conference in Orlando, Florida. ePRISM is able to personalize medicine by delivering validated prediction models using each patient's individual data. "The...
Analysis: Biobank research: Who benefits from individual consent? Having to obtain informed consent for the use of left-over human tissue samples could be hampering essential biobank research says a research group on bmj.com today. Joanna Stjernschantz Forsberg and colleagues at Uppsala University in Sweden, argue that the requirement for informed consent for biobank research is problematic for two main reasons. First, it consumes resources that could be directed towards more research...
