http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Today the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues posted on its website, www.bioethics.gov, hundreds of supporting documents related to its investigation into the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) studies conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s. The documents include a spreadsheet that Commission staff painstakingly created to document the research subjects in Guatemala. In addition, the Commission has posted a Spanish translation of its report, "Ethically Impossible" STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-bioethics-commission-additional-documents-historical.html Other Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:57:38 EST news249220652 The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today issued its report concerning federally-sponsored research involving human volunteers, concluding that current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk. In its report, "Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research," the Commission also recommended 14 changes to current practices to better protect research subjects, and called on the federal government to improve its tracking of research programs supported with taxpayer dollars. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-bioethics-commission-human-subjects.html Other Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:40:04 EST news243148318