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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2001
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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The Rights Of The Adolescent: The Mature Minor, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Victoria J. Davis
The Rights Of The Adolescent: The Mature Minor, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Victoria J. Davis
Articles & Book Chapters
Health care providers who treat adolescents may also be required to diagnose and treat the reproductive health conditions of minor patients and to facilitate health prevention measures, including contraception and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Teens who do not want their parents to know about their sexual behaviour may consult a health care provider for reproductive or sexual health care services and treatment without parental knowledge or consent. This may present legal and ethical dilemmas for health care providers. Common law recognizes that adolescents under the legal age of majority who are sufficiently mature (the mature minor) may have the …
Making Clinical Trials Safer For Human Subjects, Michael S. Baram
Making Clinical Trials Safer For Human Subjects, Michael S. Baram
Faculty Scholarship
Clinical trials, in which new biotech and other medical products are tested on human subjects, provide much of the data used by the FDA to determine whether the products are suitable for routine use in health care. Thus, the trials are of obvious importance to medical progress and improvement of public health, and to those who have career and financial interests at stake. But clinical trials are also important to the human subjects involved because the products being tested on them may remedy their illnesses, but may also pose risks since the products have usually not been previously tested on …