Participants at this study are part of an ongoing longitudinal project measuring rheumatic disease outcomes, approved by the local Ethical Committee for Medical Research.
Mr. Zuckerman said that under the state's Business Corporation Law, a corporate board can award a contract to a business in which a board member has a financial interest as long as the board member's interest is fully disclosed and as long a majority of the disinterested board members -- those with no personal stake in the outcome -- approve the contract.
In fact, this could be the argument that would be made for three diseases examined in this study (COPD, diabetes and glaucoma), for which the FDA allows relying on surrogate outcomes to approve the drugs.
A World Fit for Children: Outcome document of the Special Session This is the official, final text of the outcome document approved at the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children on 10 May 2002.
Read the approved outcome document of the Special Session, 'A World Fit for Children': A World Fit for Children: Outcome document of the Special Session This is the official, final text of the outcome document approved at the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children on 10 May 2002.
[click here to order or download a copy] Report of the Children's Forum Read the Children's Forum Report (PDF) Outcome document A World Fit for Children: Outcome document of the Special Session This is the official, final text of the outcome document approved at the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children on 10 May 2002.
Hamas vehemently denies the legitimacy of Israel but its leaders have stated repeatedly that if Fatah negotiates with Israel a two-state peace deal based on the 1967 borders, and if this outcome is approved in a national referendum, it would respect it as the choice of the Palestinian people.
The collection of impact data and outcome was approved by the institutional ethics committee.
The protocol to study biological markers associated with disease outcome was approved by the medical ethics committee of the Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) (MEC 02.953).
I am always struck by this disconnect in far too many politicians and pundits whenever anything happens in foreign lands -- the debate immediately begins as to "what we should have done" or "what we should be doing" to procure an outcome that we approve of.
This week Katsuya Okada, the foreign minister, said that he would be happy with bilateral talks so long as the outcomes were approved in the six-party format.
