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Ethics in Pharmaceutical Research

• "Ethics Case-Study: When are industry-sponsored trials a good match for community doctors?" American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine

• "Sugar pills vs medicine: The ethics behind placebo-controlled trials," by Chris MacDonald (Parkhurst Exchange, January 2002)

• Bioethics for clinicians 10: research ethics. Weijer C, Dickens B, Meslin E.  Canadian Medical Association Journal 1997; 156: 1153-1157.

• The future of research into rotavirus vaccine. Weijer C. British Medical Journal 2000; 321: 525-526.

• Why clinical equipoise, and not the uncertainty principle, is the moral underpinning of the RCT. Weijer C, Glass KC, Shapiro S.  British Medical Journal 2000; 321: 756-758.

• "Conflict of interest in research, education and patient care" Trudo Lemmens,  Peter A. Singer, CMAJ 1998;159:960-5.

• "Placebos: Deceptive benefits," by Jeffrey Kahn

• "Shopping for clinical trials: New NIH Web site raises ethical issues," by Jeffrey Kahn
• "Guinea Pig Soldiers?" by Jeffrey Kahn
• "Too Old to Benefit? Why are so Few Seniors in Cancer Research?" by Jeffrey Kahn
• "AIDS vaccines: immune to quick success," by Jeffrey Kahn
• Patient Safety, Conflict of Interest, and Academic Integrity: the Olivieri Affair