Jobs in Ethics - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
News Articles
Media Advisory: AMA Annual Meeting Begins Final Voting Session Today at 8:30 am (CT)
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - June 19, 2013) - The nation's broadest assembly of physicians and medical students gather today in Chicago to shape the health care agenda of the American Medical Associa...
Fresenius Kabi Named NOVAPLUS® Pharmacy Supplier of the Year
Second time in three years company receives recognition Fresenius Kabi has been named NOVAPLUS® Pharmacy Supplier of the Year by Novation, a leading health care supply chain...
Herbalife Mexico Recognized for its Commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
Global nutrition company, Herbalife (NYSE: HLF), has received an award for its corporate social responsibility program in Mexico. The award, which was presented to Herbalife at th...
MINNEAPOLIS, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four compliance and ethics champions will be honored by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) during the 9th Annual Compliance and...
BD Issues 2012 Sustainability Report
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today the publication of its 2012 Sustain...
Novation 2013 Diagnostic Imaging Watch Highlights Latest Product and Practice Trends
IRVING, Texas, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Novation, the leading hospital and health care supply chain expertise, analytics and contracting company for the members of VHA Inc., UHC, Children's H...
IRVING, Texas, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Novation, leading health care supply chain expertise and contracting company for the members of VHA Inc., UHC, Children's Hospital Association, and Pro...
Chicago Physician Presented the Excellence in Medical Ethics Award
Peter Angelos, M.D., Ph.D., received the Excellence in Medical Ethics Award at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 22nd Annual Scientific & Cli...
GlobalMed Named Finalist for 2013 BBB Business Ethics Award
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 3, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GlobalMed®, worldwide leader in real-time healthcare delivery systems, announces it has been chosen as a finalist for the Better Business Bureau (B...
Novation Awards Three-Year Contract for Carestream’s Radiology, Cardiology Healthcare IT Solutions
Contract Includes Vue RIS+PACS, Cardiology PACS, Vue for Vendor-Neutral Archive Carestream has been awarded a three-year agreement by Novation, a leadin...
Events
None
Companies
Open Compliance & Ethics Group
Quintiles is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide. The Quintiles network of mo...
A non-profit, member-led trade association, the Healthcare Billing & Management Association (HBMA) represents more than 30,000 employees at well over 650 third-party medical billi...
Heartwood Institute, a non-profit educational organization based in Pittsburgh, is committed to promoting the understanding and practice of seven universal ethical attributes that...
SAI Global Compliance provides organizations with a wide range of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) products, solutions and services that help build organizational integrity a...
Established in 1957, the National Notary Association (NNA) is the nationâs foremost professional member organization serving the communities of Notaries in every state. The n...
Pernod Ricard is the worldâs co-leader in wines and spirits with consolidated sales of â¬Â 7,643 million in 2010/11. Created in 1975 by the merger of Ricard and Pernod,...
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Fidelis Diagnostics is a rapidly growing healthcare company providing a portfolio of innovative diagnostic services to physicians nationwide. Since i...
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in Californiaâs Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,600 student...
Established in 1989, Best Upon Request is a national certified Minority and Women Business Enterprise offering on-site concierge services as a viable and highly utilized employee...
Clinical Trials
Daily-Dose Consensus Interferon and Ribavirin: Efficacy of Combined Therapy
This Phase 3 clinical study is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of two dose levels of Infergen (interferon alfacon-1, CIFN) plus Ribavirin administered daily for...
Odense Androgen Study: Study of Androgens, Body Composition, and Muscle Function in Danish Men
Objective: - To define a reference-population of healthy young men (20-29 years old). - To establish reference-intervals for: 1. Total, bioavailable and free serum an...
Cardiovascular Longitudinal Evaluation & Assessment of Risk (CLEAR) Study
The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is considerable, despite many advances in diagnosis, clinical management and drug therapy. The World Health Organization estimates 30% of global...
Phase Ib Trial of MSP3 LSP in Children in Tanzania
This study will evaluate the safety of candidate malaria vaccine MSP3 in children aged 12-24 months in Tanzania in a highland area with low malaria transmission. Written informed consent...
Research Participants' Views on the Ethics of Clinical Research
This pilot study will explore the usefulness of a series of questions asking about views of research from the perspective of minority and economically disadvantaged research participants....
Characterization of Macroprolactinemia
The purpose of this study is to clarify the nature of macroprolactin which has recently been highlighted because of the high prevalence and a diagnostic pitfall of hyperprolactinemia. The...
The Norwegian Mother and Child Study - Environmental Specimen Collection
The Norway Mother and Child study is a collaborative venture among health researchers in Norway funded by the Norwegian government. The study is being coordinated by the National Institut...
Exploratory Data Analysis for Disease Pedigrees and Cancer Genetics
The researchers have developed and distributed several software packages for pedigree analysis (FASTLINK, CASPAR, PedHunter, IIC) and cancer genetics (oncotree, METREX). Users who need ass...
Clinical Trial to Assess the Effects of Candesartan on the Carbohydrate Metabolism of Obese Subjects
Hypothesis: The use of candesartan 16-32 mg/d for 6 months improves the carbohydrate metabolism, and decreases the plasmatic levels of adipocytokines and oxidative stress markers, in non...
A short presentation of a randomized clinical trial of biofeedback and anal injections as a first treatment option of faecal incontinence. Background: Faecal incontinence affects mainly w...
PubMed Articles
The aim of this study was to develop a method for quantitative measurement of urinary metabolites of pyrethroid (PYR) insecticides, trans-chrysanthemumdicarboxylic acid (CDCA) and 3-phenoxybenzoic aci...
Clarifying assent in pediatric research.
Assent is a relatively young term in research ethics, but became an often mentioned ethical requirement in current pediatric research guidelines. Also, the European Society of Human Genetics considers...
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases just confirmed a grade I recommendation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) screening despite growing controversy. Why should HCC be an exce...
How Pharmaceutical Industry Employees Manage Competing Commitments in the Face of Public Criticism.
The pharmaceutical industry has been criticised for pervasive misconduct. These concerns have generally resulted in increasing regulation. While such regulation is no doubt necessary, it tends to assu...
OBJECTIVE: To analyse users' experience of TOPS, an internet-based system that helps UK clinical research units to prevent healthy volunteers from participating in more than one non-therapeutic trial...
Abstract Purpose: To evaluate the brain damage of term neonates with evidence of a preceding hypoxic sentinel event using eSWAN prospectively. Methods: The study was approved by the institutional rese...
International guidelines on biobank research leave researchers in ambiguity: why is this so?
In recent years, non-pharmacologic approaches to modifying human neural activity have gained increasing attention. One of these approaches is brain stimulation, which involves either the direct applic...
The ethics of imposing healthy professional lifestyles on professionals.
As chief of surgery at Salubrus, a large for-profit group practice, you received notification from the board of trustees that you cannot hire a surgeon you wanted to hire because she chain-smokes ciga...
A Bayesian decision-theoretic sequential response-adaptive randomization design.
We propose a class of phase II clinical trial designs with sequential stopping and adaptive treatment allocation to evaluate treatment efficacy. Our work is based on two-arm (control and experimental...
Videos
The Ethics of Capitalism Part I (Capitalism & Morality Seminar 2012) - Stefan Molyneux
Mr Molyneux runs one of the most influential and successful online, liberty-oriented philosophical shows, Freedomain. An unrelenting fighter for the supremac...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Codes Of Ethics
Systematic statements of principles or rules of appropriate professional conduct, usually established by professional societies.
Ethics, Research
The moral obligations governing the conduct of research. Used for discussions of research ethics as a general topic.
Ethics Consultation
Services provided by an individual ethicist (ETHICISTS) or an ethics team or committee (ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL) to address the ethical issues involved in a specific clinical case. The central purpose is to improve the process and outcomes of patients' care by helping to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical problems.
Narration
The act, process, or an instance of narrating, i.e., telling a story. In the context of MEDICINE or ETHICS, narration includes relating the particular and the personal in the life story of an individual.
Postmodernism
A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E.R. DuBose, The Illusion of Trust: Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age, Kluwer, 1995)
