U.S. panel raps how agencies handle human research

2011-12-15T14:30:45Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies fund thousands of studies on human subjects, but do not have a very good handle on the basic information about that research -- possibly putting participants in harm's way, a presidential panel of reviewers has found.

The presidential bioethics commission looked into the current protections for human subjects in a review triggered by evidence o...

US panel urges protection of humans in research

2011-12-15T12:30:21Z

A bioethics panel that investigated a Guatemalan sex disease scandal urged the US government Thursday to consider compensating victims who are harmed by participating in future research.

The President's Bioethics Commission was tasked by Barack Obama after revelations last year that 1,300 people were exposed to venereal disease as part of macabre research led by an American in Barack Obama after revelations last year that 1,300 people were exposed to venereal disease as part of macabre research led by an American in

Amphetamine-type drugs more common than cannabis: U.N.

2011-09-13T07:00:50Z

VIENNA (Reuters) - Criminal gangs are selling more cheap and easy-to-make amphetamine-type drugs, such as ecstasy and crystal meth, in new markets, and cannabis is now the only more widely used illegal drug, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.

The number of methamphetamine pills seized in southeast <...

U.S. researchers broke rules in Guatemala syphilis study

2011-08-30T07:00:38Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government researchers must have known they were violating ethical standards by deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis for an experiment in the 1940s, according to a presidential commission.

The U.S.-funded research in Guatemala did not treat participants as human beings,...

U.S. to shed light on Guatemala syphilis experiment

2011-08-29T09:00:29Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. presidential commission will release on Monday its findings on a government research project that deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis in the 1940s.

The conclusions have consequences for U.S. diplomacy and will impact the ethical discussion surrounding how new drugs are tested on patients, as manufacturers increasingl...

Guatemalans sue US over 1940s STD study

2011-03-15T21:30:19Z

Seven Guatemalans filed a class action lawsuit in Washington over a 1940s US study in which hundreds of people in the Central American nation were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea without their consent.

The suit by the Guatemalans, filed against the Guatemala on Wednesday issued a formal request for full disclosure on how US scientists deliberately infected hundreds of people here with sexually transmitted diseases from 1946-1948.

"All of the information has been requested officially but it is still at the university where they found the archives," President Alvar...

U.S. government researchers secretly infected Guatemalans with syphilis in the 1940s

2010-10-01T22:31:34Z

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Guatemala Bus Fire

2011-01-04T14:01:53Z

A passenger wounded in a city bus that caught fire waits for medical attention in the emergency room of a public hospital in Guatemala City, Monday Jan. 3, 2011. The man is one of 16 people injured when the city bus exploded Monday afternoon. The cause of the explosion in which five people died is unknown. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Guatemala Emergency Room

2010-12-27T14:32:13Z

In this photo taken May 5, 2010, medical students and paramedics rush a man with gunshot wounds to the operating room at the emergency of the San Juan de Dios hospital in Guatemala City. Guatemala is one of the most violent countries in the hemisphere with over 50 murders for every 100,000 residents. In 2009 at least 6,451 p...

APTOPIX Guatemala Emergency Room

2010-12-27T14:31:59Z

In this photo taken June 12, 2010, students and doctors fit on the X-ray table a man who was beaten as he was robbed, at the emergency room of the San Juan de Dios hospital, Guatemala City. Guatemala is one of the most violent countries in the hemisphere with over 50 murders for every 100,000 residents. In 2009 at least 6,4...

Guatemala War on Impunity

2010-11-13T12:00:38Z

In these Sept. 25, 2006 photos provided by the Attorney General's Special Assistance Unit for the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), Colombian prisoner Jorge Eduardo Batres lies dead inside Pavon prison near Guatemala City. According to prosecutors in an extra-judicial killing case, then Interior Minis...

Guatemala Weather

2010-09-05T08:10:35Z

In this photo released by Guatemala's National Disaster Commission, people gather at the site where a bus crashed after a landslide, due to heavy rains, on the Pan-American highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. At least 12 passengers were killed and around 25 injured, rescue workers said. (AP Photo/Guatemala's National Disaster Commission)

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