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Feature articles on medical ethics:

Doctors Interrogate Children as Informants on Parents' Behavior

3/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) Encouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), pediatricians across the United States have begun questioning children about their parents' habits, in some cases even filing police reports based on this information, according to...

Drug reps use psychological tactics to successfully influence doctors' prescribing habits

7/30/2007 - Pharmaceutical companies spend more than $15 billion each year promoting prescription drugs in the United States. One-third of that amount is spent on "detailing" -- an industry term for drug company representatives' one-on-one promotion to doctors....

New mind probe technology could be used to interrogate the public

2/12/2007 - (NaturalNews) A new technology that scans the brain to read people's minds, giving details of what actions a person is thinking about, makes some critics wonder if neuroscience has gone too far. The prescient technology raises ethical questions whether...

Neurosurgeon murdered dog to demonstrate medical device, animal advocates say

1/24/2007 - (NaturalNews) A Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon is under investigation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture after deliberately causing a brain aneurysm in a dog to demonstrate a medical device to salespeople Wednesday. Clinic officials say the procedure...

Protestors call for investigation into growth-stunting procedure for mentally disabled girl

1/17/2007 - (NaturalNews) Protestors have demanded that state and federal authorities investigate possible rights violations in the case of the brain-damaged Seattle girl known only as Ashley, who underwent a growth-stunting medical procedure at the behest of her...

Surgeons "maimed" brain damaged child to "convenience" caregivers, health advocate charges

1/10/2007 - (NaturalNews) A 9-year-old mentally disabled Seattle girl named Ashley has recently finished 2 1/2 years of hospital treatments, ostensibly performed to make her easier to care for throughout her life, but a health advocate is calling the act "medicine...

Survey: Some clinics offer embryo selection to create children with genetic defects

12/30/2006 - (NaturalNews) A recent survey appearing in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that 3 percent of 190 participating embryo screening clinics in the United States have provided specified embryo selection for parents seeking to create children with...

Death sentence for medics accused of giving hundreds of children HIV

12/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for a second time Tuesday, for knowingly infecting 426 children with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Since the medics were first imprisoned in 1999, 52...

FDA panel on stent safety includes six doctors with strong financial ties to stent manufacturers; FDA waives ethics rules

12/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) An FDA panel set to make decisions on the safety and regulation of possibly deadly heart stents will include six doctors with financial links to Johnson & Johnson and other manufacturers of heart devices. In allowing the physicians to...

Top Alzheimer's researcher charged with felony criminal conduct for secret financial ties to Pfizer

12/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) A top researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was charged Monday with criminal violation of federal conflict-of-interest laws by failing to disclose financial links with drug giant Pfizer, prosecutors said. Pearson "Trey"...

California doctor made nude photograph collection of unconscious patients, used pharmaceuticals to wipe their memories

11/8/2006 - (NaturalNews) A California doctor has been accused of battering two men in his home in addition to taking nude photographs of unconscious male patients who visited his private practice in Dublin, California. Dr. Tony Shiu disappeared after the warrant...

Scientists to combine human, bovine embryos into human-cow hybrid

11/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) Researchers from Newcastle University and Kings College London recently applied to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority for a three-year license to create embryos by fusing human DNA with cow eggs to aid in stem cell research. Stem...

Medical ethics: Hospital refuses to tell patients who received implants of stolen bones

9/25/2006 - (NaturalNews) Twenty-five hospitals in the UK may have used stolen bones for transplant recipients there, but officials won't tell patients who got transplants from which sources. More than 80 body parts from New Jersey-based Biomedical Tissue Services...

New government rule may allow medical experiments on humans without their consent

9/7/2006 - (NaturalNews) In 1996, a regulation (21CFR50.24) was approved that contained a loophole allowing experimental testing of a blood substitute product -- HemAssist -- on emergency trauma patients without their knowledge or consent, but the experiment was...

Body part harvesting company sold parts from dead cancer patients, drug users for use in surgery recipients

8/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered a North Carolina company that harvests human body parts for transplant to close last week after finding serious violations in the company's donor-screening and record-keeping practices. The...

The real Abraham Cherrix question: Does the State own your body? (opinion)

8/15/2006 - Both the conventional cancer industry and the mainstream media have so far managed to frame the Abraham Cherrix debate as one concerned with conventional medicine versus alternative medicine. But this framing of the debate is, itself, a deception. The...

U.S. government wants to begin using prisoners for medical experiments

7/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new report by the Institute of Medicine recommends easing current restrictions on the use of prisoners in medical experiments to allow inmates to "benefit" from clinical trials. Critics of the plan cite past abuses of prisoners by...

Australia may legalize organ harvesting of live patients

7/10/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Australian Health Ethics Committee is currently lobbying for legislation that will allow bodies to be prepared for organ transplantation before death; specifically those who are certain to die when their heart stops beating. The result...

Movie Review: The Island starring Ewan McGregor explores timely theme of corporate exploitation of human beings

5/22/2006 - "The Island" is one of the best science fiction movies I've seen in a long time. Aside from its obvious strengths, which include stunning action sequences thanks to director Michael Bay, "The Island" also explores important science fiction themes that...

Experts say antidepressant drugs cause suicides instead of preventing them

4/10/2006 - In June 2001, a jury in Wyoming determined that the antidepressant drug Paxil caused a man to kill his wife, daughter and granddaughter before killing himself. The jury awarded the surviving family $8 million in damages, according to American Medical...

Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965)

3/6/2006 - Introduction by the Health Ranger: The United States claims to be the world leader in medicine. But there's a dark side to western medicine that few want to acknowledge: The horrifying medical experiments performed on impoverished people and their children...

Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1965-2005)

3/6/2006 - This is part two of a two-part series on human medical experimentation. Click here to read part one and the introduction. (1966) The CIA continues a limited number of MKULTRA plans by beginning Project MKSEARCH to develop and test ways of using biological,...

JAMA says doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies

3/1/2006 - The Journal of the American Medical Association is rocking the boat in conventional medicine. An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion -- aghast! -- that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that...

New England Journal of Medicine accuses Merck of deleting important Vioxx information from study

2/15/2006 - As if things weren't bad enough for pharmaceutical giant Merck and Co., the picture just got a little grimmer. Already facing tremendous heat and a long line of lawsuits over Vioxx -- its arthritis medication that was pulled off the market in September...

Conflicts of interest: How Big Pharma influences the FDA's drug approval process at the expense of public safety

12/13/2005 - In a recent eight-to-one vote, an FDA panel recently recommended approval of the diabetes drug Pargluva, despite concerns that it could cause potentially serious heart problems. Astoundingly, the decision was made without the help of a cardiologist,...

Long-term testing requirement for psychiatric drugs abandoned due to Big Pharma pressure on the FDA

12/4/2005 - The bipolar medication lithium is so toxic that it often causes major kidney damage, yet most patients must use it for lifetime maintenance of manic-depressive disorder. Similarly, schizophrenics often spend lifetimes on neuroleptics with long-term side...

Unnecessary surgery exposed! Why 60% of all surgeries are medically unjustified and how surgeons exploit patients to generate profits

10/7/2005 - Every year millions of Americans go under the knife, but many of them are enduring great pain and shelling out thousands of dollars for surgeries they don't really need. In fact, the only people who seem to really benefit from these unnecessary medical...

The FDA, Vioxx, and crimes against humanity

7/18/2005 - I am both shocked and appalled at the recent decision by the FDA advisory panel to re-approve Vioxx and put the stamp of safety on all Cox-2 inhibitors, including Bextra and Celebrex. This vote came immediately after another vote in which the panel nearly...

Physicians and bribery: a closer look at this common medical industry practice

7/7/2005 - In 2001, 2.8 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States for an average of 9.9 prescriptions per person. This statistic taken from Ultraprevention, by Drs. Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, certainly supports their point that "drug industry prescriptions...

Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals

6/7/2005 - Have you ever thought about the similarities between pharmaceutical and tobacco companies? They're striking. Both sell products that kill people when used as directed. The statistics are readily available for pharmaceuticals, which kill around 100,000...

Drug companies discredit negative studies and blacklist honest researchers

5/17/2005 - Just when I thought I was done criticizing Merck, new evidence surfaces that gives us another reason to discuss some of the outrageous behavior by this pharmaceutical company. The latest news concerns Merck's attempts to suppress and discredit a study...

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