Bioethics Web Resources
Below are lists of useful web links for course work and professional needs.
If you find a site that you believe would be useful to other Clinical Trials and Regulatory Affairs Professionals, please email the URL to clinical@rx.uga.edu. Also, let us also know if you find an outdated or broken link so we may replace it.
Agencies and Institutions
US Food and Drug Administration: www.fda.gov
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): www.dhhs.gov
The President's Council on Bioethics: www.bioethics.gov
National Institutes of Health (NIH): www.nih.gov
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature: www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nrc/index.htm
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: www.hhmi.org
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions: www.indiana.edu/~poynter
Journals and Periodicals
BioEdge: Weekly newsletter aims to promote ethics in medicine and to provide information and commentary on bioethics. www.bioedge.org
Bioethics.com: Global information source on bioethics news and issues. www.bioethicsnews.com
Bioethics Wire:A service of The Hastings Center, provides commentary on issues in bioethics - patient care, health policy, medical science and research, biotechnology, the beginnings and endings of life, and environment and health. It aims to broaden and deepen the social debates about bioethical issues. www.thehastingscenter.org/BioethicsWire/Default.aspx
Bioethics.net: Provides links to daily news articles and weekly commentary on issues in bioethics, from the American Journal of Bioethics. www.generef.com/biotech.news.html
Bioethics News: The news service sponsored by the biotechnology industry. www.generef.com/biotech.news.html
CNN's ethicsmatters: This site archives CNN columns by Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics. The most recent information is from 2002 and organized by topic. cnn.com/HEALTH/bioethics/archive.index.html
IRB Forum: This site provides news and information about upcoming events concerning ethical, regulatory, policy concerns about research with humans. www.irbforum.org
MSNBC "Breaking Bioethics": News columns on topical issues by Dr. Arthur Caplan for the University of Pennsylvania. msnbc.msn.com/id/3035344
News in Bioethics and Biotechnology: This site links to journals, books and news. www.eubios.info/NBB.htm
Science and Development Network: News stories about health in the developing world. Search for bioethics. www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierItem&Dossier=5
SciDev.Net: Distributes news and science and technology aimed toward the developing world. updated weekly and has a section on ethics of research. www.scidev.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=aboutus
