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Controversy over the study, which is under way at 31 hospitals across the nation, is pulling back the curtain on similar studies ready to be launched under President Bush's "war on terrorism" as well as Project Bioshield, an ambitious plan to protect citizens against chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attacks through the development of commercial products, such as vaccines for anthrax and smallpox, and the development of blood substitutes. The concept of no-consent studies is also controversial and new-so new that in early 2005 one of the sites testing PolyHeme, Duke University, had to get the state medical board to change North Carolina's Patient Bill of Rights, requiring patients to give informed consent prior to enrollment in a study.
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Blood Not-so-Simple
A "NO-CONSENT" MEDICAL STUDY of an experimental blood substitute is creating an uproar among researchers and bioethicists. Controversy over the study, which is under way at 31 hospitals across the nation, is pulling back the curtain on similar studies ready to be launched under President Bush's "war on terrorism" as well as Project Bioshield, an ambitious plan to protect citizens against chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attacks through the development of commercial products, such as vaccines for anthrax and smal...
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