Project management of clinical research initiated by investigators in medical institutions / 中华医学科研管理杂志

Objective:This paper aimed to explore the problems and solutions in the management of Investigator-Initiated Trail (IIT) in medical institutions, to provide suggestions particularly in the absence of relevant high-level policy support.Methods:By combining literature review with working practice experiences, this paper analyzed the current situation of IIT’s management and the rationale, put forward suggestions.Results:IIT related problems identified including as the responsible entities of the management, research topics selection, protocol design, continuity, research team construction, ethical review and the cultivation of research management personnel. The centralized management will help the standardized management of such projects, the training of investigators and team building, the review awareness strengthening of the ethics committee, improvement of management ability.Conclusions:IIT plays an important role in promoting the development of medical scientific research. Medical institutions should integrate resources, provide platforms, train investigators assure the quality of IITs.

On the Ethical Issues of Public Health in Responding to Pandemic Influenza / 中国医学伦理学

A pandemic influenza is an epidemic that outbreaks worldwide.Not only medical issues but also ethical issues of public health should be solved in the process of responding to pandemic influenza.It is vital to study ethical issues of public health posed in responding to pandemic influenza and discuss how to solve them ethically,which can provide a basis for formulating relevant policies and laws,and also can provide ethical evidences for evaluating whether the responding act is effective and can be justified ethically.

Is Bioethics the love of life? / 中国医学伦理学

Professor Darryl Macer considers love as the universal principle of bioethics,and tries to turn the paradigm of bioethics shaped from Christian culture into a universal bioethics paradigm.However,he ignores the pluralism of world's culture and moral,suspected to generalize about the whole picture.Among a variety of culture in the world,each is a moral community,with its own system of moral value.The love is understood and interpreted in different ways,so that it can't be the universal and the only paradigm of bioethics.