Ethics+of+Informed+Consent

=**__INFORMED CONSENT- the process of providing information and receiving the patient’s permission.__**=

==There are many ethical dilemmas that face science and medical research today. The process of people being able to give consent for tissue, cells, and other body parts, to be used by the medical profession has quite a history.==

Federal policy for informed consent is not easy to come by. Privacy issues and conflicts of interest are at the forefront of the discussion even today.
===When Henrietta Lacks cells were obtained by doctors at John Hopkins hospital there was no practice in place for acquiring informed consent from the patients. The hospital staff have acknowledged the contribution that Henrietta's tissues have offered the medical society, however, getting permission for using cells in 1951 was not common practice. ===

=="More protections are in place today. A National Institutes of Health regulation makes informed consent standard procedure: No research proposal involving human subjects receives federal funding unless it’s approved by local ethics review boards. In 2006, Congress outlawed the release of personal medical information."==

Weighing Rights and Responsibilities in Medical Research
//By Charles Buchana//

= = =THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INFORMED CONSENT= = = = =

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