Talk:Ethical problems using children in clinical trials

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I've just created this page, most of it is taken from the ADHD controversy article, it could probably do with expanding a bit, perhaps some examples of legal challenges to children being used or something....I don't have any relevant knowledge in this field, but I've tried to make it look respectable Restepc (talk) 14:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Definition of "clinical trial"

Currently, the intro (like the article on Clinical trial) contains the definition "In health care, a clinical trial is a comparison test of a medication or other medical treatment (such as a medical device), versus a placebo (inactive look-a-like), other medications or devices, or the standard medical treatment for a patient's condition."

Is this sufficiently exhaustive for a definition? I do not know enough about the subject, but the definition in the glossary of an old copy of "Good Clinical Practice for Trials on Medicinal Products in the European Community" (copyright status unknown) seems slightly broader to me (doesn't have to be versus anything). --Boson (talk) 22:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I just took the definition from the clinical trial article, if the consensus definition changes there feel free to change it here too Restepc (talk) 04:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
There is a link if readers want the whole nine yards, what's there seems sufficient for understanding the article.Somedumbyankee (talk) 06:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "commodity" issue

There needs to be an excellent secondary citation that supports the notion that children are commodities that parents sell for money in research.--scuro (talk) 02:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Massively rewrote article. The "Commodity" issue is kind of Loaded Language, but there is a real ethical concern about money being coercive.Somedumbyankee (talk) 06:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)