59. The institutions dealing with issues of bioethics in the Republic of Latvia are the Health Department of the Ministry of Welfare and the Central Commission of Physician Ethics of Latvian Physicians apos Association.

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malta has its own Research Ethics Committee to deal with research applications within the Faculty, hospital, and other institutions if requested.

Member of the International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO).

52. In Switzerland, draft federal legislation on medically assisted procreation, establishing a national ethics commission (Act on Human Medicine), states that

In addition to the existing legal provisions, the Medical Union of Uruguay, an association of the country apos s physicians, and more particularly the Union apos s Bioethics Commission, drafted a Code of Medical Ethics.

1996 1998 Member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO.

62. In Tunisia, in view of the progress made by the medical sciences and the evolution of ideas in a society in a state of flux, the Act on the Organization of the Health Profession provides for the establishment of a national medical ethics committee with a view to the protection of human rights.

The Committee noted the decision of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) of UNESCO not to draw up a declaration of ethical principles, but rather to emphasize and promote awareness of moral and ethical issues raised by space activities in the framework of reinforced international cooperation.

Colombian Commission of Jurists

56. The Government of Austria reported that the Hospitals Act and the Drugs Act provided for the establishment of ethics commissions.

1992 present Member, International Advisory Board, Project on International Mental and Behavioral Health, Harvard Medical School, Department of Social Medicine

Coordination on the national level is taken care of by the Working Group on Ethics Commissions in the Federal Republic of Germany which holds its meetings at the headquarters of the Federal Medical Board.

7. The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) also sent a reply.

61. The Government of Malta reported the establishment of a Bioethics Consultative Committee to advise the Minister for Social Development on matters relating to bioethics.

ALLEA, the European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities, has a Standing Committee on Science and Ethics which is concerned with a wide range of problems, 'internal' (within the scientific community) and 'external' (relations between science and society) (http www.allea.org index.html).

Chairman of the Group of 77 and China at the United Nations (2003).

, which has two main objectives promoting and developing business opportunities for London Medicine apos s affiliates in order to increase the flows of clinical, educational and research work in London apos s hospitals and medical schools, and to attract research contracts and investment from British and international companies.

19. The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) stated that bioethics in the health sector should be guided by generally accepted principles, in particular by the principle that an adequate level of health care should be recognized as a universal and fundamental human right.

In 1992, the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) adopted International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects .

According to the Standard Professional Code for German Physicians, which underlies all individual professional codes in this respect, all physicians, prior to conducting any clinical trial on a human person or epidemiological research using personal data, must seek the advice of a medical ethics commission on the medical and legal issues involved.

57. In Chad, doctors and other practitioners conform to the Medical Ethics Code and the Public Health Code in their work.

Statement submitted by Colombian Commission of Jurists, a non governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

ECSL will remain in close contact with COMEST with regard to the preparation of its proposal on ethics and space law, to be submitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization General Conference.

35. The Institute of Health Law of the University of Neuchâtel reported that a number of ethical guidelines have been adopted during the last 20 years by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) founded in 1943.

63. In Uruguay, the legislature has had a Standing Bioethics Committee since 1993.

Member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), since 2002.

Based on the recommendations of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) and the comments on those recommendations received from the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, UNESCO will develop activities on education, research and awareness raising in the ethics of outer space, both within and outside the space community.

Physical medicine and rehabilitation, etc.

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is an interdisciplinary committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU), established in 1958.

Recommendation 3. University Council and boards

Under their provisions the involvement of ethics commissions is required by law in order to conduct clinical examinations in human beings as well as clinical examinations of medical products and to apply new medical methods in hospitals.

Board Member, Harvard South Africa Scholarship Committee.

In the end it's about pathology.

Nov. 1989 Jan. 1990 Committee member investigation of high failure rate among MEDUNSA students

It is the concern of the Government that prior to the passing of legislation on National Bioethics a consultative committee should be set up within the framework of human rights to review medical moral issues and propose appropriate responses.

The Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of the British Medical Association (BMA) is to ask its full council to back more industrial action from early September.

Executive Committee Member, Board of Management, MEDICOS School for Intellectually Impaired Children (Shoshanguve)

11. Consultant to the UNESCO International Bio Ethics Committee in drafting declaration on the protection of the human genome (September)

44. Invites the Committee to expand the scope of international cooperation relating to the social, economic, ethical and human dimension in space science and technology applications

In response to the government's silence, JDC exec has today made a formal request for a special meeting of BMA Council to authorise a rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September.

Jagdish Bhagwati (India) is Professor of Economics and Law at Columbia University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

I want to go to Harvard and then on to Columbia premed.

The duty applies to the following doctors, nurses, pedagogies, social workers, police officers, psychologists, clinical criminologists, para medical personnel, lawyers, religious scholars and rabbinical pleaders.

The Subcommittee noted the broader application of telemedicine in health care and its benefits for epidemiology, off site radiology services, cardiac monitoring, medical consultations and specialist referrals, correctional care and tele education in health care.

The Subcommittee noted the broader application of telemedicine in health care and its benefits for epidemiology, off site radiology services, cardiac monitoring, medical consultations and specialist referrals, correctional care and tele education in health care.