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British paediatrician David Southall defends his pioneering use of covert video surveillance (CVS), arguing that secretly filming parents hurting their own children is ethical as well as vital. Southall argues that the use of CVS in suspected cases of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy can spare children unnecessary suffering and possibly even death. He reveals that in 39 secret recordings of babies with an unexplained history of near death events made by him and his colleagues, a parent was caught on film suffocating the child in 30 cases. One recording showed a mother poisoning her child.
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There is growing concern in the UK about the methods used to conduct clinical trials. Some observers believe that doubts must be raised about the ethical issues associated with randomized clinical trials, in which some patients do not have access to drugs which may save their life. There is a growing view that it is not appropriate to wait until trials, which sometimes last several years, have been completed until action is taken on their results. Indeed, in the case of possibly fatal diseases, it may be unethical not to act on the results of clinical trials as early as possible.
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The Space Syntax Laboratory, the architecture consultancy of University College London, has been run on an increasingly commercial basis since 1995. Its profits have so far been reinvested in improving software and in staff, but Tim Stonor, who has placed the consultancy on a commercial footing, believes that it can become more profitable as theoretical architecture and planning take on a commercial slant. The operation focuses on understanding the layout of space and how that has an affect on activity.
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