Had Moses come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments bristling with footnotes, his vision of a new moral order might have come to naught. Since 1964, the Helsinki Declaration has been the ...

Scientific evidence shows that human activities impact global warming, biodiversity loss, land degradation, overuse of natural resources, and pollution. They threaten the health and safety of human ...

The declaration of Helsinki recently turned 60, but don’t feel bad if you missed the celebrations. It probably passed unnoticed by most people not working in the medical field – and possibly even a ...

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Research on human subjects is governed by a large number and wide variety of codes and policies worldwide. In Canada, the Tri-Council Policy Statement1 must be adhered to by individuals and ...

Proposals for minor revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki, including ideas for providing additional protection to research participants, have been sent out for comment to national medical ...

The World Medical Association, meeting in Divonne, France, this week, has agreed to examine concerns about the way ethical guidelines in placebo control trials are being implemented. This follows last ...

Almost 50 years ago, the World Medical Association adopted the Declaration of Helsinki as an ethical guide for research involving human subjects. There are now proposed revisions under consideration ...

Dominic Wilkinson receives funding from The Wellcome Trust. He is a member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee (the views in this article are his own). The declaration of ...