Posted: April 24th, 2015

federal regulation

federal regulation

Order Description

first section:
The current version of the Declaration of Helsinki discourages the use of placebos in instances where there is standard medical therapy available. However, there really is a placebo effect for certain classes of drugs that should be examined to determine the true effect of an active drug. Do you think it is unethical to use a placebo in a clinical trial in a disease for which there is standard therapy available? Explain your position.

second section:
Read the article from this past Sunday’s NY Times Business Section (A Drug Trial’s Frayed Promise) (http://nytimes.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx). List 3 things that should have been done differently to avoid the problems that occurred during this trial.