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Accepting placebos
Over at the Neuroethics and Law Blog, Adam Kolber argues that we should embrace the use of placebos: Should a doctor stop prescribing antidepressants to a particular patient when the doctor believes that antidepressants will be no better for the patient than placebos? After recent changes in the American Medical... (read the rest)
A comment from Paul Gelsinger on gene therapy and informed consent
In a guest post earlier this week Alan Milstein, the attorney who represented Jesse Gelsinger's family, wrote about his reaction to a recent editorial by James Wilson about gene therapy and informed consent in the journal Human Gene Therapy. The guest post prompted a number of comments, including one from... (read the rest)
On gene therapy and informed consent
By Alan Milstein January’s issue of Human Gene Therapy offers some intriguing commentary on the issue of informed consent in gene transfer trials. I became aware of the articles when a writer for TheScientist Blog called for my reaction to the Editorial by James Wilson, because I had represented the... (read the rest)
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