News tagged with 'Ethics'

In 1990, members of an Arizona Indian tribe thought they were giving blood samples to study diabetes. The tribe has now won a lawsuit against Arizona State University for failing to adequately inform the donors what their DNA would be used to study.

The Washington Post offered to lobbyists, lawmakers and corporations, nonconfrontational and off-the-record access to reporters for $25,000 to $250,000 -  a direct conflict-of-interest to the Code of Ethics followed by American journalists  - "Deny favored treatment".  

The birth of octuplets this week was initially heralded by the media and medical community, but now the tough questions are being asked with few answers.  Who funded this fertility treatment and how will the woman and her family be able to afford the children after it was revealed she already has six at home.   Medical ethicists says professional guidelines would not have allowed this to happen.

Ethicist Kirk O. Hanson, the Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California talks to IB news to try and make sense of the actions of abusive teen girls charged with harming elderly Alzheimer's patients.