Experiments on army volunteers in Israel will be overseen by the health ministry

doi:10.1136/bmj.39500.509676.DB

BMJ 2008;336:467 (1 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39500.509676.DB

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Experiments on army volunteers in Israel will be overseen by the health ministry

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

¹ Jerusalem

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Personnel in the Israel Defence Forces who served in tests ofantidotes for anthrax, nerve gas, and other toxic substanceswill soon be protected under supervision of the health ministry.

Clinical trials in the military began more than 35 years agoand have continued to this day without the army’s medicalcorps informing the participants what pills they are given andthe risks.

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel petitioned the High Courtof Justice on behalf of soldiers of various ages who took partin the unsupervised experiments without giving informed consentand complained that their health had deteriorated as a result.

The government told the judges that from now the military agreesto have such experimentation overseen by the health ministry,in the same manner as civilian medical experimentation is supervised.The ministry is in the process of preparing a government billthat will set down detailed rules to govern . . . [Full text of this article]

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