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...federal proposals to regulate the use of children as medical subjects will probably prevent their exploitation without hampering legitimate research, William J. Curran, professor of Legal Medicine at the Medical School wrote in an editorial in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
...have to be earn careful about what you do to kids," Curran, a pioneer in the field of children's rights in medical research, said yesterday. Though he fears the government could interpret the rules too stringently, Curran still thinks they are reasonable. "It could have been much worse, as there were some radical proposals made which would have stopped most research," he added...
...regulations would leave local hospitals some latitude in interpreting them. "Gray areas would include drugs tried on children when the drugs may have side effects that could endanger the child," Curran said. "You may have to work with one child to protect other children. There may be some risk, but not a great risk," he added...
...Curran said researchers experimented on institutionalized mentally retarded children in order to develop a polio vaccine, and that the new rules would limit such practices...
...Chernin, professor of Tropical Health; William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine; Arthur J. Dyck, Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics; Benjamin G. Ferris, professor of Environmental Health Engineering; David Mark Hegsted, professor of Nutrition; George B. Hutchinson, professor of Epidemiology; Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology in Nutrition; Brian MacMahon, Walcott Professor of Environmental Psychology; Dade W. Moeller, professor of Engineering Environmental Health and associate director, Kresge Center for Environmental Health; Roger L. Nichols, Heinz Professor of Microbiology and associate director, Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases; Hilton A. Salhanick, Hisaw Professor of Reproductive Physiology; Frederick J. Stare, professor...