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The Vienna Declaration

The Vienna Declaration is a scientific statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit…

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Havasupai Case Highlights Risks in DNA Research

April 21, 2010 - A settlement between 41 members of the Havasupai Indian tribe and Arizona State University highlights the risk researchers take when…

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Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

Although its capital is notorious among stoners and college kids for marijuana haze–filled “coffee shops,” Holland has never actually legalized cannabis — the Dutch…

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Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live

April 3, 2010 - By the time she was 38, Dr. Desiree Pardi had become a leading practitioner in palliative care, one of the…

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New tool: Universal Human Rights Index

The Universal Human Rights Index is a new research tool in the field of international human rights, aimed to facilitate students’ and academic staff’s…

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Statement for World Health Day 2009

When an emergency or disaster occurs, most lives are lost or saved in the immediate aftermath of the event. People count on hospitals and…

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Vatican Ethics Guide Stirs Controversy: Church Decries Stem Cell Research, Infertility Treatments

The Vatican’s first authoritative statement on reproductive science in 21 years triggered intense debate yesterday about some of the most contentious issues in modern…

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Why Tie Health Insurance to a Job?

Not many people are buying cars built 60 years ago. No one is watching TV on a set manufactured in the 1940s. Patients are…

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Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics

Clinical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach to assist physicians in identifying, analyzing and resolving ethical issues in clinical medicine.…

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Medical Ethics by William Ruddick

Until recently, philosophers took little interest in medical practice or physicians’ codes of ethics. Since the 1960’s, however, they have joined physicians, theologians, and…

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International Bioethics Committee (IBC)

The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order…

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Law & Psychiatry: Present at the Creation: Mental Health Law in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet

What would it be like for a mental health system to operate in a legal vacuum? In a country like the United States, where…

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UN report highlights lack of access to essential medicines

The UN report Delivering on the Global Partnerships for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals highlights the existence of large gaps in the availability of…

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Drugging kids for parents’ relief…

July 22, 2010 - If the kids become too much to handle, slip ‘em a little cold medicine. It’s an often-repeated joke - or advice - that parents share on the playground or on Twitter and Facebook pages.

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New AIDS policy: much social…

July 13, 2010 - A new domestic AIDS policy rolled out by the White House on Tuesday looks for new ways to educate people about the deadly and incurable virus, from social media to “scientifically sound” school…

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Upcoming Events

8-10 July 2010, Aghveran

Training on “Using the European Convention for Human…

The OSIAFA, the IR, the HRGGP and the LAHI have the pleasure to invite human rights lawyers from Armenia to apply for participation in a three-day training session on safeguarding patients’ rights, to be held in Aghveran,…

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8-12 August, 2010, Zagreb

World Congress on Medical Law

From the four corners of the earth we will make our bi-annual pilgrimage to Croatia, to the beautiful city of Zagreb, impelled by our reverence for, and devotion to the services of Medical Law, Health Law, Biolexology, Ethics…

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July 18-23, 2003

The International AIDS Conference 2010

The International AIDS Conference is the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic.

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The Right to Health was affirmed at the international level in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25 in 1948. The article states that “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate…

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July 13, 2010 - A new domestic AIDS policy rolled out by the White House on Tuesday looks for new ways to educate people about the deadly and incurable virus, from social media to “scientifically…

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