/channels/taxonomy/term/7343/all en /channels/channels/news/stem-cells-and-future-health-care-globe-and-mail-december-8-2021-335460 <p>Professor Jonathan Kimmelman, Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unit, participated in a <em>Globe and Mail</em> panel on stem cells.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/events/article-stem-cells-and-the-future-of-health-care/"><em>Learn more and watch the recording.</em></a></p> Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:01:09 +0000 webfull 175448 at /channels /channels/channels/news/how-canadian-researchers-are-using-stem-cell-advances-transform-medicine-globe-and-mail-december-2-335314 <p>Professor Jonathan Kimmelman, Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unit, is among the experts quoted by <em>The Globe and Mail.</em></p> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:55:49 +0000 webfull 175290 at /channels /channels/channels/news/philanthropist-funded-study-prestigious-hospital-raises-thorny-questions-about-clinical-research-334324 <p>Professor Jonathan Kimmelman, Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unit is among the experts quoted by STAT.</p> Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:31:04 +0000 webfull 174161 at /channels /channels/channels/news/when-stop-hoping-covid-19-miracle-cure-fivethirtyeight-august-4-2021-332254 <p>Professor Jonathan Kimmelman, Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unit is among the experts quoted by FiveThirtyEight.</p> Thu, 05 Aug 2021 21:12:27 +0000 webfull 172070 at /channels /channels/channels/news/experts-fda-approves-much-debated-alzheimers-drug-panned-experts-331414 <p>U.S. government health officials approved the first new drug for Alzheimer's disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding warnings from independent advisers that the much-debated treatment hasn't been shown to help slow the brain-destroying disease. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it granted approval to the drug from Biogen based on results that seemed “reasonably likely” to benefit Alzheimer's patients. (<a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/fda-approves-much-debated-alzheimer-s-drug-panned-by-experts-1.5459470" target="_blank">CTV News</a>)</p> Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:35:58 +0000 webfull 171038 at /channels /channels/channels/news/why-credibility-astrazenecas-vaccine-data-matters-yahoo-news-march-24-2021-330017 <p>Professor Jonathan Kimmelman, Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unit is among the experts quoted in this piece about the AstraZeneca vaccine.</p> <p style="margin-left:40px">"…“It’s one thing for a drug company or sponsor to bungle this on the first go but this is the second time this company has released information that was inaccurate and confusing, and it’s incredibly frustrating,” said Jonathan Kimmelman, a bioethicist at ���ϲ����� University."</p> Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:55:01 +0000 webfull 169423 at /channels /channels/channels/news/expert-opinion-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-unlikely-fall-2021-325084 <p>Experts working in the field of vaccine development tend to believe that an effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021. In a paper published recently in the <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06244-9"><i>Journal of General Internal Medicine</i></a>, a ���ϲ�����-led team published the results of a recent survey of 28 experts working in vaccinology.</p> Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:31:23 +0000 webfull 163964 at /channels /channels/channels/news/ctv-news-hundreds-canadians-willing-be-infected-coronavirus-speed-vaccine-research-322221 <p>Thousands of healthy volunteers, including hundreds of Canadians, have offered to try getting injected with a potential vaccine and then purposely becoming infected with COVID-19 to test if the vaccine works. <strong>Jonathan Kimmelman</strong>, a professor of biomedical ethics at ���ϲ����� University, expressed concerns about the risks.</p> Tue, 19 May 2020 17:28:30 +0000 webfull 160758 at /channels /channels/channels/news/national-post-mom-fears-losing-access-experimental-drug-helped-daughter-after-study-ends-286237 <p>Jonathan Kimmelman, director of biomedical ethics at ���ϲ����� University, agreed companies have some obligation to continue to provide care for patients who take part in studies to test experimental products. “Any time a patient participates in a trial, they’re volunteering their body to advance science,” he said from Montreal. “And if it’s a trial being run by a pharmaceutical company, they’re volunteering their bodies to advance the goals of the pharmaceutical company, whether that’s a big pharmaceutical company or a small one.</p> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:29:39 +0000 webfull 136915 at /channels /channels/channels/news/bloomberg-scientists-dont-fear-new-crispr-snag-284111 <p>I talked this over with ���ϲ����� University medical ethicist Jonathan Kimmelman, who specializes in the risks of medical experiments and has written a book about them centered on the Jesse Gelsinger case. Of course, he says, money isn’t the only thing that might prevent medical researchers from being perfectly objective -- there’s the desire to be heroes, to beat rivals, and to help patients. A bigger concern is the fact that whatever is driving scientists, they can have blind spots just like everyone else.</p> Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:25:03 +0000 webfull 134365 at /channels /channels/channels/news/proliferating-drug-trials-pose-pitfalls-doctors-and-patients-269946 <p> Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:00:54 +0000 webfull 130684 at /channels /channels/channels/news/cancer-researchers-overestimate-reproducibility-preclinical-studies-268784 <p>Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies can be successfully replicated, new research from ���ϲ����� University suggests.</p> Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:06:43 +0000 webfull 129045 at /channels /channels/news/cancer-research-plagued-poor-study-design-256090 <p>Badly designed studies may lead to the efficacy of drugs being overestimated and money being wasted on trials that prove fruitless, according to a new study from ���ϲ����� University in Canada.</p> <p> Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:41:10 +0000 webfull 113286 at /channels