| 6/20/2008- | Ethical issues in rheumatology clinical trials: Dr. Jeremy Sugarman of the Berman Institute coauthored this work with Clifton O Bingham III exploring ethics in rheumatology clinical trials ...
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| 6/20/2008- | Our Two Cents: Research Ethics Consultation at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health : Dr. Nancy Kass and Dr. Holly Taylor of the Berman Institute co-authored this work. ...
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| 6/9/2008- | Dr. Jeremy Sugarman of the Berman Institute has been quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Bioethics Crisis Looms Unless NIH Changes Course, Critics Warn
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| 4/10/2008- | Dr. Ruth Faden featured in Ethics tied to medical advances : Dr. Ruth Faden, a leading expert in the field of Bioethics, underlines that the public must be made aware of implications of scientific breakthroughs. ...
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| 3/28/2008- | Berman Institute's Dr. Gail Geller quoted in the Washington Post : Genetic Testing ...
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| 3/24/2008- | Dr. Jeremy Sugarman of the Berman Institute quoted in Nature: "Unlike insurance, many of the stem cell banking initiatives are more like a gamble. Insurance is there to provide a certain benefit given an uncertain future. Stem cell banking is providing an uncertain benefit combined with an uncertain future." ...
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| 3/24/2008- | Review of Dr. Ruth Faden's book Social Justice: DePaul Journal of Health Care Law Book Review Issue, Volume 10, Number 4, 567-585. ...
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| 2/8/2008- | Ways to Improve Informed Consent are testable, Study Says : Findings could prevent costly but worthless attempts to improve mainstay of clinical trials. ...
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| 12/14/2007- | Aristotelean Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical Character: Dr. Maria Merrit of the Berman Institute examines the Aristotelean conception of virtuous character as firm and unchangeable, a normative ideal endorsed in the currently influential, broadly Aristotelean school of though known as "virtue ethics." ...
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| 7/2/2007- | Case Study: Cross-Cultural Bioethics Training Program Helps Fight African 'Brain Drain': When African professionals migrate to the United States or Europe, it's often called brain drain. In the world of research ethics, at least one training program is causing the opposite effect. Now entering its eighth year of operation, the Johns Hopk ...
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| 6/20/2007- | Study: Donated Embryos Could Result in More Than 2,000 New Embryonic Stem Cell Lines : In a survey of more than one thousand infertility patients with frozen embryos, 60 percent of patients report that they are likely to donate their embryos to stem cell research, a level of donation that could result in roughly 2000 to 3000 new embryo ...
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| 2/12/2007- | Individuals with Genetic Conditions Twice as Likely to Report Denial of Health Insurance than Individuals with Other Chronic Illnesses: Large-Scale Study Compares Health Insurance Experiences, Attitudes, and Beliefs of People with Genetic Conditions vs. People with Other Serious Medical Conditions. ...
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| 1/23/2007- | NIH-Funded Case Study: Research Ethics Committees in Africa Report Inadequate Funding, Staffing and Training : Throughout Africa, the number of people participating in health research is on the rise, yet surprisingly little is known about how research ethics committees – the critically important, independent review groups charged with protecting human subject ...
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| 1/18/2007- | Experts Provide Model Language to Help Clinical Researchers Disclose Financial Conflicts of Interests: Facing a wide range of practices on how financial conflicts of interest are disclosed to potential clinical research participants, experts at Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, and Wake Forest University have published new language designed t ...
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| 9/28/2006- | Experts Issue Urgent Call to Adopt New Principles to Aid and Protect World's Most Vulnerable Populations from Influenza Pandemic : With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, an international group of experts in public health, animal health, virology, medicine, public policy, economics, bioethics, law and human rights met in Bellagio, Italy from 24 to 28 July 2006 to consider ...
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| 9/8/2006- | Study: U.S. Clinical Researchers Resist Full Financial Disclosure : Researchers and officials charged with the ethical oversight of research are often reluctant to fully disclose financial interests to potential clinical research participants, according to the latest Conflict-of-Interest Notification Study (COINS), ...
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