Profession
Center studies vaccine ethical issues
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 16, 2006
The University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics last month launched an 18-month project that will attempt to develop a framework to guide public health agencies, drugmakers, researchers, physicians and patients on the safe, effective and ethical use of vaccines.
The center will hold a series of interdisciplinary seminars on the topic, according to Arthur Caplan, PhD, the group's director.
"The prospect of an avian flu pandemic -- and it is still just a prospect -- is bringing into sharp relief where we need to focus our energies in terms of the ethics around the role of vaccines in global public health," Dr. Caplan said in a statement.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/01/16/prbf0116.htm.
