Sentences with phrase «own ethics committee»

The House of Commons ethics committee held hearings this week to take a closer look at the breach that involves Facebook and, allegedly, the political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica.

A business - communication industry group that named Blazek its Communicator of the Year in 2013 said an ethics committee is currently evaluating how to address her venomous leaked messages.

In that regard it is a pity that Conservative MPs on the ethics committee were apparently uninterested in hearing from Mr. Wright, but then there are still two questions on the order paper that the government side might deign to respond to before the House rises for the summer.

And most research on diet and health or PTSD comes from correlational studies, as no ethics committee will let you induce obesity or traumetize someone for an experiment.

He agreed to pay a $ 300,000 fine for misleading the committee during the investigation, and in the process dodged conviction on the actual charges through a combination of finessing some legal definitions, sheer self - confidence and raw political power (as Speaker of the House at the time of the complaints, he appointed the ethics committee.

Furthermore, GOPAC had one ethics committee member on its roster last session, and gave money to another.)

The ethics committee at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan weighed in on August 9, 1993, opining that to honor the parents» desire to continue Baby Terry's treatment «would be contrary to medical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my emphasis).

Allen H. Roberts II, M.D., is professor of clinical medicine and chair of the ethics committee at Georgetown University Medical Center.

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.

Every ethics committee has been gutted.

Bishop Michael Nazir - Ali, a former chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's ethics committee, the UK's fertility watchdog has criticised a decision by the NHS to fund a new fertility clinic that offers treatment to couples including those in same - sex partnerships.

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.

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.

Congress has an ethics committee, and schools and universities are supposed to teach values.

Andrea Grossman, a public relations officer for Tufts University's human nutrition research center on aging, was quoted by the Beijing Youth Daily as saying that the study on golden rice was approved by authorities in both countries after an examination by ethics committees.

The ethics committee of the Cameroonian football association will look into allegations of «fraud» by «seven bad apples» in their three group games.

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It's a little harder to trust him after some key members of the ethics committee were booted.

Fifa president will be investigated by his own ethics committee after allegations that he knew bribes were being exchanged for votes have emerged.

«Fifa ExCo member Mohamed Bin Hammam has requested the Fifa ethics committee to open ethics proceedings against Fifa president Joseph S Blatter,» a Fifa statement read.

«In view of the facts alleged in this report, which include bribery allegations, Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke, in compliance with article 16 of the Fifa code of ethics, yesterday requested the Fifa ethics committee to open ethics proceedings.»

The ethics committee are bound by their rules to investigate any complaint by an executive committee member under article 16 of the ethics code.

Fifa has announced Claudio Sulser, head of the ethics committee, will not take charge of the hearing as he shares Swiss nationality with Bin Hammam's presidential rival Blatter.

IOC president Jacques Rogge acknowledged last week that his organization received the complaint and says it is in the hands of the ethics committee.

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter is facing another corruption investigation after the ethics committee of world football's governing body announced it was opening proceedings against him and key lieutenants Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner.

The Fifa ethics committee banned president Sepp Blatter and Uefa president Michel Platini from football activities for eight years.

March 15 — Having bowed to global pressure and finally banned former Brazilian FA boss Marco Polo Del Nero for 90 days, FIFA's ethics committee has extended the suspension for a further 45 days while it continues to investigate his alleged role in taking bribes.

The deluded Norwegian head of the so - called ethics committee declaring that Warner, complete with large pension, leaves with «the presumption of innocence.»

There were some lengthy conversations with the ethics committee, but the fertility clinic eventually agreed as well.

API is concerned about the recent statement by the ethics committee under the Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the subsequent national discussion about the medical ethics of elective caesarean sections.

The IBLCE ethics committee has been «reviewing» My complaint for almost nine months.

Ethical approval Ethical approval was obtained from an ethics committee created for the North American Registry of Midwives to review epidemiological research involving certified professional midwives.

For example, the Methodist Church Conference received a report from its ethics committee in June 2015 also showing Nestlé systematically breaks marketing rules.

So, as the ethics committee report explains, Nestlé weakened these policies in 2010 prior to being admitted to the index, knowing these would be the benchmark.

Yet, as a recent ethics committee report to the Methodist Conference sets out, FTSE weakened the FTSE4Good criteria because Nestlé and other companies were not complying and it wanted to bring at least one into the index.

In total, 7893 parents gave informed consent for participation of their infants in the postnatal phase of the study.33 The medical ethics committee of the Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, Netherlands) approved the study.

Furthermore, in 2003, an ACOG ethics committee stated that it is ethical for doctors to perform elective caesarean sections on pregnant women who face no known risks from vaginal delivery.

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).

Ethical approval was obtained from the Royal College of General Practitioners, participating research bodies, and all local research ethics committees.

The protocol was approved by the hospital ethics committee.

The regional ethics committees for medical research approved the study and written informed consent was obtained from the women.

«The Assembly refers all charges of sexual harassment directly to the ethics committee.

Over the past week, things have gone downhill quickly for both Lopez, who announced he won't be seeking re-election as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, but has refused to heed calls to resign his Assembly seat; and Silver, who was revealed to have negotiated a secret settlement of $ 103,000 worth of taxpayer cash with two women whose harassment claims against Lopez pre-dated those sent to the ethics committee.

Nothing is ever said between members of the ethics committee.»

One did not want to go through the ethics committee process, choosing to go the settlement route instead.

«The only instance in which a complaint would not be handled by the ethics committee would be if a victim insisted for reasons of personal privacy that it not go before the committee.

The two accusers who did choose to file complaints with the ethics committee have retained counsel.

This will be the speaker's first public appearance since he abruptly announced Lopez had been censured and stripped of his seniority after the bipartisan legislative ethics committee found the Brooklyn Democrat had made unwanted verbal and physical advances toward several young female staffers.

After the Bank's ethics committee refused his request to recuse himself from any decisions regarding her future, Mr Wolfowitz proposed Ms Riza was transferred to the US state department.

The NYT reported that Silver had used an undisclosed amount of taxpayer cash to settle a claim made against Lopez before these two staffers» complaints were referred to the ethics committee.