Posts in category: Liveblog Coverage
Commission Wraps Up Miami Meeting
For the past year the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has been conducting a careful and transparent review of the ethical considerations of conducting clinical trials of medical countermeasures (MCM) with children. The examination raises many challenging and complex issues. MCM research could carry some risk in order to protect children from [...]
Tom Beauchamp, Ph.D. to address Commission
Tom Beauchamp, Ph.D., an invited speaker at the 12th meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, has been a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University for more than 30 years. Beauchamp has earned many accolades in the field of bioethics. [...]
Dennis Thompson, Ph.D. to address Commission
As the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues gathers in Miami to continue its discussion of the development of an ethical framework around the issue of pediatric medical countermeasures, Commission members will hear from additional experts in relevant fields. This afternoon Dennis F. Thompson, Ph.D., the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy [...]
Federal Regulations Concerning Pediatric Research
“Under what conditions is participation of children in research ethically acceptable?” This was the question the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research faced in 1974 when it began its deliberations on pediatric research. Its report, Research Involving Children, ultimately became the foundation for pediatric research regulations adopted in [...]
Commission in Miami
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is meeting today and tomorrow in Miami, Florida (January 14-15, 2013). At this meeting the Commission is expected to wrap up its exploration of the issues surrounding the ethical issues associated with research that could carry some risk in order to protect children from high consequence [...]
Commission in Chicago
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is meeting today and tomorrow in Chicago (November 5-6, 2012).
Roundtable Discussion on Medical Countermeasures for Children
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has been examining the ethical considerations of conducting clinical trials of medical countermeasures for children. The Commission’s report will explore whether to conduct a pre- and post-event study of an anthrax vaccine as a component of treatment for children exposed to weaponized anthrax. At today’s meeting, [...]
Risk and Minimal Risk: How Low Can You Go?
David Wendler leads the Vulnerable Populations Unit in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center’s Bioethics Department. In a conversation ranging from child soldiers to high school car washes, he led the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues through an exploration of minimal risk and societal benefit that will help inform the Commission’s [...]
Dryvax, individual risk and the greater good
How do you balance the individual risk of testing an anthrax vaccine for children against the societal good of having the vaccine on hand in case of an anthrax terrorist attack? This morning, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues explored how researchers tackled this ethical dilemma in 2002. Months after 9/11, worried [...]
Wrapping up Genomics and Privacy
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues wrapped up its public deliberations on genomics and privacy this morning, ending a more than year long examination of the emergence of whole genome sequencing as an addition to clinical care and genetic research. The Commission spent several hours publicly discussing the set of recommendations it [...]
