WASHINGTON (AP) - ordered on Wednesday ensure President Obama a great review to the ethical treatment of people who research, which secured by the Federal Government.
His action is a response to the revelation that American scientists deliberately infected people in a Guatemalan psychiatric hospital with syphilis in the 1940s this year.
In a memorandum, published by the White House Mr Obama announced a review of federal and international standards to protect of the health and welfare of study subjects known as human subjects. He ordered a fresh examination of what happened in the widely condemned Guatemala experiment.
In this case American infected intentionally prisoners scientists and an effort to test was apparently patients in a mental institution with syphilis from 1946 until 1948.Es, if penicillin, relatively new could some sexually transmitted prevent infections.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in October, it was "reprehensible research", and both you and Mr Obama Guatemala's President Álvaro Colom called to apologize.
"While I believe that the research community has enormous progress in the field of human subjects protection, what took place in Guatemala is a sobering reminder of past abuses," Mr Obama said in the memo to Amy Gutmann, President of the Presidential Commission for the study of bioethics issues.
Mr Obama said the Commission use its expertise in the fields of science, politics, ethics and religion, must protect those in medical research teilnehmen.Der President added, "we owe it to the people of Guatemala and future generations of volunteers."
Mr Obama ordered form a panel Dr. Gutmann, starting in January, to begin the reviews and it nine months a report and recommendations bereitzustellen.Er said, members must obtain input from experts in Guatemala and throughout the world.
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