UK "ethical red tape" is stifling research

UK researchers are complaining that ethical standards and adminstrative hurdles introduced after a scandal involving a National Health Service hospital, have damaged medical research in the country.

Jenny Hewison, a clinical researcher at Leeds University, told the UK's Guardian newspaper that it is "a disaster and it is absolutely not in the public interest." Dr Hewison and Andy Haines, a colleague at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, have written to the British Medical Journal to raise concerns about the unintended effects of new regulations.

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