Court orders 'sharing' of data; in a growing number of cases, judges are demanding that confidential data be made public - and researchers often wind up feeling bruised

Article Abstract:

Corporations have pressured scientists in a series of cases to give them confidential data, but courts have upheld the 'scholar's privilege' to protect the confidentiality of research subjects. Two cases involving researchers studying the impact of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill are discussed.

Scientists, Confidential communications, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Disaster, 1989

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Disclosing data can get you in trouble

Article Abstract:

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Mutchnick and Panguluri with insider trading for tipping friends and relatives about an unsuccessful clinical trial of hepatitis-B drug thymosin alpha 1. The friends avoided losses by selling Alpha 1 Biomedicals and SciClone Pharmaceuticals stock.

Product development, Pharmaceutical industry, Drug therapy, Securities, Insider trading in securities, Insider trading (Securities), Hepatitis B, Thymosin, Mutchnick, Milton, Panguluri, Rangarao, SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc., Alpha 1 Biomedicals Inc., SCLN, ALBM

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Researchers eager to see Soviet data

Article Abstract:

Records on people who live in the Chelyabinsk area of the former Soviet Union could provide important information about the influence of exposure to low levels of radiation on health. The area has been contaminated by radiation from a variety of sources.

Health aspects, Low-level radiation, Low level radiation, Chelyabinsk, Russia

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