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National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), BioThera Research Institute for the Philosophy of Translational Medicine, FLACSO collaborating centre of PAHO/WHO

  • Informing patients of relevant health information and innovations: patient recall or annual physical?

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    Recently the NEJM published an interesting debate on the value of the annual physical (also known as “periodic health examination”) (Goroll 2015). “Today, because of the rapid growth of medical knowledge and the widening application of technology to medicine, there is a particular need for a continuing authoritative review of, standards for both preventive and…

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  • Democratic reciprocity model: a justification of continued access to an investigational medicine in clinical research

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    In this paper, Dr. Mastroleo develops a normative model for the obligation of continued access to an investigational medicine towards research subjects from the perspective of social or distributive justice inspired in the theory of justice of John Rawls. He calls this the democratic reciprocity model. The original idea of the democratic reciprocity model is…

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  • Ethics of clinical innovation. Now with video by J. Sugarman

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    In this presentation, Dr. Mastroleo defends the view that clinical innovation should be understood, following Levine, as non-validated medical practice. Moreover, he argues that if this is the correct interpretation of clinical innovation this implies that the ethics of clinical innovation are different from (some) clinical research and validated medical practice. PICTURE: Anna Boksa, “Damian”.…

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  • Post-Trial Obligations in the Declaration of Helsinki 2013, 1st Revision

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    This presentation by Dr. Mastroleo is Revision 1 of the previously published version of September 6, 2015 (DOI: 10.17160/josha.2.6.65) Dr. Ignacio Mastroleo works on human health research ethics. Since Feb 2015 he is a member of the Post-Trial Responsibilities Workgroup of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trial (MRCT) Center, at Harvard University. He has a PhD in…

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  • Post-Trial Obligations in the Declaration of Helsinki 2013

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    Dr. Ignacio Mastroleo works on human health research ethics. Since Feb 2015 he is a member of the Post-Trial Responsibilities Workgroup of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trial (MRCT) Center, at Harvard University. He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires and Assistant Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of…

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  • La obligación de continuidad de tratamiento beneficioso hacia los sujetos de investigación

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    Todos los días se prueban nuevos psicofármacos, tratamientos para el VIH/SIDA o el cáncer, entre otras enfermedades. Algunos de esos tratamientos son lo suficientemente exitosos como para cronificar enfermedades antes consideradas mortales, como los antirretrovirales para el VIH/SIDA o el imatinib para la leucemia mieloide a principios del 2000. No obstante, antes de que puedan…

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