Rutherford County Mayor Joe Carr recently vetoed "an unlawful" County Commission resolution on Ethics Committee appointments.

We have traditional birth attendants operating within Rubaga division. The national policy is that all expectant mothers should deliver in health facilities with a skilled birth attendant.

The role of an ethics committee is to give advice on what should be done in often contentious situations. They are used in medicine, research, business, law and a variety of other areas. The word ...

The newly merged Adelaide University has experienced an accreditation and compliance issue for human research projects, only receiving "conditional" accreditation as opposed to full approval from a ...

New drug approvals by Health Canada are based on the results of clinical trials. But before clinical trials can go ahead, they need to be approved by ethics committees known as Research Ethics Boards ...

With trial authorisation harmonised at EU level but ethics oversight still organised nationally, Belgium is seeking to close the gap between legal alignment and operational practice ...

The main concern of the Ethics Committee for the ethical assessment of Research Projects at the IfK is to evaluate the ethical risks and the ethical acceptability of projects involving the study of ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...