With regards to ethics in scientific biomedical research, changes have been proposed for the Declaration of Helsinki, which were spurred by the following developments:
a) Increased research sponsored by for-profit organizations such as pharmaceutical companies
b) Increased non-profit agency and government scrutiny regarding the clinical populations being proposed for investigation
c) Less stringent guidelines on informed consent in order to increase the number of double-blind experimental designs
d) Decreased globalization of research which limits cross-culture generalizability
Question 2
Down's syndrome is the result of:
a) Environmental insult, usually during the birth process.
b) A recessive-gene disease.
c) A specific chromosomal abnormality.
d) None of the above; the cause is unknown.