Word: oversight
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...trials paints a vivid picture of the tragedies that individual research subjects have endured, but it does not adequately depict the millions of patients who have benefited from such trials [MEDICINE, April 22]. Tests of experimental medications provide access to treatments that would otherwise be unavailable or cost prohibitive. Oversight of clinical trials is essential, and an investigation of the review process may be necessary, but your article may have had the sad effect of making patients less inclined to participate. JEFFREY J. WALLINE Columbus, Ohio...
...survivor of prostate cancer, I owe my life to those on the front line of medical research, the courageous participants in clinical trials. But to those researchers who use shoddy procedures and put their patients at risk, as well as those institutions whose lax oversight undermines public trust, shame! Without well-designed research efforts, fully informed patients and strict oversight, we will not be able to find and develop the medicines and therapies we desperately need to treat debilitating diseases. As a board member of Friends of Cancer Research and a cancer survivor, I am all for clinical trials...
...these six, two (Commissioners Bradley Smith and David Mason) are outspoken opponents of campaign finance reform. This fact raises the question of whether the commission will even enforce the new laws. But the bigger problem is that the FEC keeps third party candidates out of elections. To provide unbiased oversight, the federal government must disband the commission and replace it with an independent commission. This change would take the politics out of supervising elections, and it would mean that the campaign finance laws would be enforced without partisan bias...
...election. Her decisions on the manual recount played a key roll in putting Bush in the White House. Perhaps, as the Carter Center does for other nations, the U.S. should invite election observers from our European allies to oversee the process and make sure it is completely fair. This oversight would not be an insult to our sovereignty, but rather an important gesture to show that we are not hypocrites and that international oversight can go both ways...
...perpetrators of terrorism—not just in Afghanistan, but also across the globe—are being captured by U.S. forces, it is imperative that we have set standards by which we can try and judge them. Ideally, international courts can provide the oversight and legitimacy that state-based judicial action cannot. For the international legal system to falter now, the chasm between the U.S. and the rest of the world would grow to even larger proportions...