NewsBlog: Should trial sponsors pay for treatment? Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 31st January 2008 04:34 PM GMT] What is the responsibility of a company sponsoring a clinical trial when one of its participants gets sick? That's the theme of a story in today's Wall Street Journal. As Sarah Rubenstein reports, the family of a woman who took part in a clinical trial of a drug for Parkinson's disease is suing the sponsors and university organizers of the trial. They... Click to continue View comments (4) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Do women blog about science? Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 19th January 2008 07:56 PM GMT] When we asked readers who their favorite science bloggers were last year, we started the discussion by reaching out to a number of leading science bloggers. The bloggers who responded were all men, and most of the blogs they recommended were written by men. So perhaps understandably, GrrlScientist and others ... Click to continue View comments (9) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Science blogging conf.: Ethics, please Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 19th January 2008 06:51 PM GMT] Do science bloggers need a code of ethics? Should they disclose conflicts of interest? Moderate comments? Protect anonymous colleagues? Those were some of the questions raised at the first session, led by Janet Stemwedel, that I went to today at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. It's the second such conference, and I was stimulated enough by last year's to come back. (I... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Pygmy rabbits may get reprieve Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 8th January 2008 10:28 PM GMT] For those of you cheering the pygmy rabbit, you can let up a restrained cheer today - a small one, perhaps, in keeping with the size of the animals. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), bowing to a September court order, is reconsidering whether more members of the tiny species should be covered under the Endangered Species Act. The agency had previously denied coverage of... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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