Demand Kathleen Sebelius Apologize to Parents of Babies Endangered in Study
Tell Health and Human Services Secretary to Apologize for Unethical Experiment that Exposed Premature Infants to Risk of Death and Blindness and Prevent Similar Failures in the Future
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius should personally apologize to the parents of 1,316 premature infants who were exposed to increased risk of blindness and death as part of a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health and held throughout the U.S. several years ago because they were not informed of the risks to their babies or the true nature and purpose of the research.
Add Your Name to the Petition to Secretary Sebelius
We, the undersigned, call on you to apologize to each of the parents of the premature infants enrolled in the unethical trial at 23 U.S. medical centers. This apology should be accompanied by a complete divulgence of the previously undisclosed information regarding the nature, purpose, and risks of the research.
We also urge you to take the following actions:
Direct the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) to require each participating institution to submit corrective action for avoiding such serious deficiencies in the consent process for future research.
Launch an independent investigation into how the HHS system for review and oversight of clinical trials failed so miserably. This should include an assessment of all entities within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other HHS agencies that played a role in the review, approval and funding of the study.
Determine what system-wide actions are necessary to prevent similar future failures.
Identify and suspend any similarly unethical ongoing research involving premature infants that is funded by NIH or any other HHS agency.
The trial, known as the SUPPORT study, was conducted between 2005 and 2009 at 23 prominent research facilities throughout the country, including the Stanford University School of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Brown University, Duke University and University of Alabama at Birmingham.
OMG! How absolutely despicable to say the very least! Sick, greedy bastards! A huge "Shame On You All!"
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Sun Dec 29 10:38:09 EST 2013
David Ronnow
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Fri Dec 27 16:24:50 EST 2013
Anonymous
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Mon Dec 16 22:38:31 EST 2013
Ms. Carla Compton, Advocate/Activist/Humanist
OMG! I am so absolutely shocked at this horror! How sick! How can be be let to happen!??? OMG! Horrifically insane and despicable! A HUGE and DEFINITE "SHAME ON YOU!!!"
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