Sentences with phrase «hospital ethics committee»

The study was approved by the hospital ethics committee.

Animal experiments must be approved by a university or hospital ethics committee.

The protocol was approved by the hospital ethics committee.

But several weeks after the operation, Steven's wife, Christie, accepted the prognosis that Steven would not improve and acquiesced to the hospital ethics committee's recommendation of withdrawing his tube feedings.

Borrowing from the new secular ethic of «compassionate death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal of treatment from patients or families who do not make the «right» choice.

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While sitting on hospital medical - ethics committees, I have sometimes worried that physicians are tempted, against the wishes of parents, to refuse or slow down life - sustaining treatment to an infant they think is better off dead.

The study has received the approval of the administration of the Souissi Maternity Hospital in Rabat, as well as the approval of the ethics committee for biomedical research at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rabat, registered with the Office for Human Research Protection of the US Health and Human Services Department (Registration Number: IORG0006594).

Universities and hospitals could penalize staff members for performing a human experiment not approved by an ethics committee.

Against that background, to satisfy the Lancet's patient - protection requirements, but without revealing to hospital authorities what was really going on, Wakefield falsely reported that a gruelling five - day battery of invasive and distressing procedures performed on the kids - including anaesthesia, ileocolonoscopies, lumbar punctures, MRI brain scans, EEGs, radioactive drinks and x-rays - proposed for the lawsuit, was approved by the Royal Free's ethics committee.

Walker - Smith claimed to have approval from the hospital's ethics committee and, with another doctor, confirmed this when challenged in February 2004 by a Sunday Times investigation by me.

The hospital's ethics committee considered the case on two grounds: a) Would these procedures have the potential to improve Ashley's quality of life?

Previously, Russell served as vice chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Trade Secrets Committee, vice chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Trade Secrets Litigation Subcommittee (of the Trade Secrets Committee), chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association's Legislation Subcommittee (of the Trade Secrets Committee), co-chair of the Boston Patent Law Association's Trade Secret Committee, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the 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Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Strategic Planning Committee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee, and co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee, and has been a member and co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit steering committee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono ccommittee, served as Secretary of the Committee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono cCommittee on Legal Assistance at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, served as an alternate member of the Town of Marblehead Planning Board, sat on the ethics committee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono ccommittee of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, served as a volunteer alumni interviewer for the Tufts University admissions program, and served as chair and co-chair of Foley & Lardner's Boston office pro bono committee and a member of the national pro bono ccommittee and a member of the national pro bono committeecommittee.

In 2004, her parents persuaded an ethics committee at Seattle Children's Hospital to give her what they euphemistically call «the Ashley treatment»: a hysterectomy; surgical amputation of breast buds; and administration of growth hormone to restrict her height and weight.

He is particularly involved in the area of bioethics, serving on the Ethics Committees of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, and he was chair of the New York AMFT ethics committee.

Ethics approval The ethics committee of Wuhan Union Hospital approved the study, and all participants provided written informed consent prior to enrolment.

Ethics approval The study was reviewed by the Research Ethic Committee, Hospital District of Northern Savo (75 / / 2006) and it was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down on the Declaration of Helsinki.

She has an interest in bioethics and psychology practice issues, serving on several hospital, state psychological association, and national psychological association committees devoted to ethics, disaster mental health, and colleague assistance.

Additionally, hospital's ethics committee approved this study, which was conducted according to Declaration of Helsinki principles and according to guidelines for good clinical practice.

As well as seeking approval from the ethics committee of the academic institution or hospital where the research will take place, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) stipulates that for Aboriginal health research, the ethics approval process must include an assessment by, or advice from, people who have connections with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or knowledge of research in the area, and who are familiar with the culture and practices of Indigenous participants in the study.9 Most states and territories have their own dedicated ethics committee for Aboriginal health research proposals (Box 2).

The study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and was approved by the research ethics committee of the University of Montreal pediatric hospital (St - Justine Hohospital (St - Justine HospitalHospital).

The ethics committee of Northern Ostrobotnia Hospital District approved the study, and both parents and adolescents gave written informed consent.