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Science Friday > Archives > 2001 > September > September 7, 2001:
Hour One: Clinical Trials and Human Subjects

Earlier this year the government temporarily shut down research involving human subjects at Johns Hopkins. Last week, families of several Nigerian children filed suit against the company Pfizer, saying trials of an antibiotic were conducted unethically. On this hour of Science Friday, we'll take a look at clinical trials. How should they be conducted? Can they be conducted safely and ethically -- or is the system broken?

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Guests:
Susan Quinn
Author, "Human Trials: Scientists Investors and Patients in the Quest for a Cure" (Perseus Press, 2001)
Boston, Massachusetts

Mary Faith Marshall
Chair, National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee
Professor of Medicine and Bioethics
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas

Alan Milstein
Chair, Litigation Department
Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose, & Podolsky
Pennsauken, New Jersey

Books/Articles Discussed:

"Human Trials: Scientists Investors and Patients in the Quest for a Cure" by Susan Quinn. Perseus Press, 2001. (find more SciFri books here)

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Related Links:

ClinicalTrials.gov - Linking Patients to Medical Research
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Human Subjects Research and IRBs - Bioethics Resources on the Web - NIH
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
Office of Human Subjects Research Home Page
DOE Protecting Human Subjects Home Page

This segment produced by: Charles Bergquist