News says Carolyn Ells, a bioethicist and associate professor of medicine at McGill
University in Montréal, Quebec.“We don't want to have someone label themselves sick or ill …

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lines on evidence-based best practices for managing incidental and secondary findings …

The possibility of generating incidental findings—in both research and clinical contexts—has
long been regarded as a risk of these enterprises. Should incidental findings (IFs) in …

Consider 2 true stories described in a recent report: in one case, a dangerous mass is
unexpectedly discovered in the brain of a healthy young medical student participating in a …

During the course of biomedical research, researchers sometimes obtain information on
participants that is outside the aim of the study but may nonetheless be relevant to the …

In their article on handling incidental findings, Ells and Thombs1 compare the extensive
official guidance available in the United States with the rather more concise comments for …

In their article, Levinson et al.(2020) bring forth a serious and very real problem for those
working in public health surveillance—the duty to warn—and the lack of guidance for …

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are confronted with new challenges in the face of
expanding technologies while fulfll‐ing their existing regulatory mandate to ensure that …

Genomic population research increases the possibility of finding genetic coding anomalies
that are not the primary object of research but may have significance for the current and …

Researchers in the health sciences regularly discover information of potential health
importance unrelated to their object of study in the course of their research. However, there …