Helsinki Declaration
Medical ethics guidelines
The Helsinki Declaration is a set of ethical principles governing medical research involving human subjects, first adopted by the World Medical Association in 1964 and revised multiple times since.
It established foundational requirements like informed consent, ethical review by independent committees, and the primacy of individual welfare over scientific or societal interests.
The declaration is not legally binding but has profoundly influenced national regulations and international standards for clinical trials and human experimentation.
The study protocol was reviewed for compliance with the Helsinki Declaration.
- medical ethicsHealthcare moral principles
- do no harmAvoid causing injury
- informed consentPermission given with understanding
- Nuremberg CodeMedical research ethics principles
- human subjectsPeople in experiments
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- bioregulationFDA approval, drug approval, biosafety, bioethics, human subjects
- drug researchdrug discovery, drug testing, drug screening, drug approval, clinical trials
Helsinki DeclarationBrezhnev Doctrine
Soviet right to intervene
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