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    Improvements, database urged in wake of 1940s research
    (2011) Ove, Torsten
    A presidential ethics panel said that federally sponsored research involving human subjects provides adequate safeguards to reduce risk but also recommended some improvements such as the creation of a central, publicly available database to keep track of experiments. In a report released today, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues suggested 14 changes to current practices and called on the federal government to improve the way it monitors research supported by taxpayers. The report is the second phase of a government mission undertaken in the wake of revelations in 2010 that John Cutler, a former U.S. Public Health…
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    Presidential panel excoriates former Pitt dean
    (2011) Ove, Torsten
    A presidential ethics panel today excoriated the late Dr. John Cutler, a revered dean at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1960s, and his colleagues at the U.S. Public Health Service for deliberately infecting hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, soldiers and prostitutes with syphilis from 1946 to 1948, including 83 who died. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that Dr. Cutler's experiments were morally indefensible, even for the standards of the time, and that he and his fellow doctors tried to keep secret what they were doing because they knew it was wrong.
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    Panel to report on controversial medical research project
    (2011) Ove, Torsten
    A presidential panel investigating a controversial 1940s medical research project in Guatemala led by a doctor who later became a prominent professor and dean at the University of Pittsburgh will discuss its findings on Monday at a public meeting in Washington, D.C. Since last fall, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has been investigating U.S. Public Health Service experiments conducted by Dr. John Cutler in which he deliberately infected almost 700 Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients and soldiers with syphilis without their knowledge. After issuing an apology for the research, President Barack Obama directed his bioethics panel to…