Conflicts of interest are situations in which professional judgment concerning a primary interest, tends to be influenced by a secondary interest. These conflicts could compromise the reliability of biomedical research and result in the dissemination of biased results. Therefore, it is essential to prote...
The recent Ebola epidemic that affected several countries in Africa, with very high mortality and a pandemic threat, posed problems of justice, public health, prevention, treatment and research, each of which has relevant ethical issues. Despite severe initial difficulties, an effective international res...
Ethical problems resulting from brain research have given rise to a new discipline termed neuroethics, representing a new kind of knowledge capable of discovering the neural basis for universal ethics. The article (1) tries to evaluate the contributions of neuroethics to medical ethics and its suitabilit...
Introdução: No decorrer da história da Medicina, muitas pesquisas biomédicas foram realizadas, trazendo um grande conhecimento
sobre a humanidade, entretanto, em alguns casos, os procedimentos causavam dor e sofrimento para os sujeitos da
pesquisa. Os Comitês de Ética em Pesquisa surgiram para evit...