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At a recent World Health Organization meeting in Geneva, Ripley Ballou, the head of GlaxoSmithKline’s program to develop a vaccine, argued that a randomized controlled trial comparing a potential Ebola vaccine with a vaccine that protects against another virus would be the most ethical way to assess efficacy.
If that is true, a randomized controlled trial could be the most ethical option.
In a letter published last month in The Lancet, doctors, scientists, and bioethicists from a wide range of countries – including Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, as well as Britain, France, Hong Kong, and the United States – argued that a randomized trial is justified only when there is “equipoise,” or balance, between the two options offered.
But, when facing a disease that kills up to 70% of those who are infected, and no accepted treatment yet exists, patients could reasonably refuse consent to a trial in which they might receive a placebo, rather than an experimental treatment that offers some hope of recovery.
Unlike in a randomized trial, no one would receive a placebo, and it should still be possible to detect which treatments are effective.
PHNOM PENH -- The appearance of the first former Khmer Rouge leader in a special hybrid court established in Cambodia to bring that movement’s surviving leaders to justice provoked a question on which the tribunal’s integrity will depend: should an accused mass murderer be released from prison pending his trial?
This trial is about that gray area, about that place in us all where morality decays and evil takes root and grows, the way mold prevails given the right conditions.
Trial by jury, which was infrequent anyway, is being seen less and less.
As it stands, victims of rape and domestic violence in the country are often blamed for the brutality they have endured, and face intense social pressure to settle cases, instead of pursuing them to trial.
Not only are millions of lives in jeopardy; the global framework of human rights and humanitarian law is on trial as well.
His case will now go to trial, and how long that will take is unclear.
This could prove important as he initiates yet another bogus show trial – this time of the anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny, now accused of embezzlement.
A genuinely representative assembly in the twenty-first century will not establish a polity that tolerates political prisoners, censorship, oppression of minorities and women, torture, disappearances, or detention without trial.
Moreover, in the case of Nuremberg, the prosecutors and judges could pack up their bags after the trial and leave Germany for their several homes.
A randomized controlled trial in Japanese children found that type A influenza rates in children taking vitamin D supplements were about 40% lower than in those taking a placebo; there was no significant difference in type B influenza rates.
They were convicted for financial crimes in a 2004 trial, but in August faced a fresh round of charges, including tax evasion and embezzlement.
Several senior government officials have been investigated and charged; some are already on trial, while others have lost their jobs and have been placed under house arrest.
Look at Chile, where General Pinochet may at last face trial.
The American President's designation of two Britons to be among the first six of 680 prisoners held at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to face a military trial has been condemned across the political spectrum in the United Kingdom.
Instead, President Bush asserts the power to hold them indefinitely at Guantanamo or, in his unreviewable discretion, to bring them to trial before military commissions that deny them the due process protections to which they would be entitled if any of the three legal systems were followed.
This was followed by the June 2001 court decision to set a date for trial, making it possible at last to present the evidence against these individuals.
The courts' actions represent Guatemala's first effort to bring high military officials to trial.
Regrettably, the trial has been delayed indefinitely because the defendants' lawyers appealed the case.
Although the trial has been delayed, the exposure has given the Myrna Mack Foundation and other civic efforts the time to propose ways to modernize and democratize the justice system.
And, earlier this year, the Cameron government was incensed by a decision that barred the deportation of an Islamic preacher to Jordan on terrorism charges, because his trial there might be tainted by evidence obtained under torture.
In fact, venturesome trial and frequent error have driven human development.
Here, after my show trial and four and a half months in a cell, I have discovered that there are no atheists in prison, either.
Finally, an independent criminal tribunal must be set up to investigate the June Fourth massacre, and those found responsible for the killings and other atrocities, including former Premier Li Peng, must be indicted and brought to trial without impunity.
Donors should withhold all non-humanitarian aid to Belgrade until it surrenders Milosevic for trial in The Hague.
His was a genuine case in which intellectual work was given a fair trial in the proverbial “court of public opinion” and required no further oversight.
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