Tag: Carl Elliot
Three Philosophers Win Guggenheim Fellowships
FromĀ Daily Nous: The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced this week the winners of its 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships. Three fellowships were awarded to philosophers, including...
āCarl Elliot Challenges J&J Ethics Prizeā
āItās like giving Strom Thurmond a civil rights prize, or Wells Fargo an award for business ethics,ā said Dr. Carl Elliott, a bioethicist at...
Lancet Editorial Points to “Trouble with Psychiatry Trials”
While clinical trials make up the ābedrock of evidence-based medicineā in other specialties, psychiatry faces a number of both ethical and scientific problems related to its use of randomized control trials. According to a new editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry, the field of psychiatry research has particular problems with ethical issues in recruitment, inaccurate classification systems, and controversial placebo comparisons, and then, once the studies are finished, it often remains unclear what the āoutcomes actually mean for peopleās lives.ā
ā6 Hospitalized, One of Them Brain-Dead, After Drug Trial in Franceā
Six men were hospitalized and one was pronounced brain dead after participating in a phase 1 clinical drug for a mood, anxiety, and motor dysfunction drug manufactured by Bial and administered by Biotrial. Carl Elliott, a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota, said investigators should look into questions like how much the men were paid and whether they properly consented to the trial. āMany Phase 1 trial volunteers are poor and unemployed, and they volunteer for trials like this because they are desperate for money,ā he said. āThis means they are easily exploited.ā
University Owes Mistreated Psychiatric Subjects an Apology
The University of Minnesota recently announced that it is ending the controversial practice of recruiting study participants from patients involuntarily being held in their psychiatric unit. In a commentary for Minnesotaās Star Tribune, bioethicist and MIA contributor Carl Elliot reports that the university has still not apologized to the patient who spoke out against this practice. Instead, āthe university has done its best to discredit him.ā
āThe Life of a Professional Guinea Pigā
In the Atlantic, Cari Romm describes āwhat it is like to earn a living as a research subject in clinical trials.ā āPhase 1 trials are almost always where the money is,ā she writes, but they are āalso the least regulatedā and ācompanies arenāt legally required to register a trial with Clinicaltrials.gov.ā āIt seems to me like if you were considering signing up for one of these things, you would at least want to know the data thatās out there about [safety],ā said Carl Elliott, an author for MIA and expert on the ethics of human subject research.