US radiation report prompts bioethics move

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The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments have revealed many serious lapses in the systems meant to safeguard the human subjects, thus raising moral and ethical issues of human experimentation in research. The report, which is the result of an 18-month investigation by the Committee, also recommends restructuring of non-specialist institutional review boards. Human subjects' ignorance of the risks involved and problems faced by non-specialist institutional review boards to effectively supervise research on humans are the main flaws of the system, according to the Committee.

Ethical aspects, Human experimentation in medicine, Human medical experimentation, Radiation immunology

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Key legislator collides with US officials on backing for CERN

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The US House of Representatives' Science Committee has a number of concerns about plans to allocate funding of $500,000 to the planned Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). It is vital that US scientists will retain free access to CERN, according to James Sensenbrenner, the committee's chairman, and that European governments promise to help fund a large accelerator if such a facility is constructed in the US. Furthermore, contingencies must be made for any unexpected costs in the building of the LHC.

Planning, Finance, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, European Organization for Nuclear Research, United States. Congress. House, Legislative committees, Particle accelerators, Sensenbrenner, James, Jr.

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Key statistician ousted as Waxman enters gp160 fray

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Bill McCarthy has resigned his post at the Jackson Foundation to protest his ex-employer's cover-up of information relating to the gp160 AIDS vaccine. McCarthy claims that the foundation doctored results in presenting a paper at the international AIDS conference in Amsterdam in an effort to retain lucrative research contracts with the Army. He has also accused the Army of being part of the cover-up conspiracy. Congressman Henry Waxman has expressed his interest in clearing the matter up.

Officials and employees, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Science and technology policy, United States. Army, AIDS vaccines, McCarthy, Bill, The Jackson Laboratory

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