February 12, 1999
Closer Scrutiny Recommended for High-Risk Psychiatric Experiments
The director of the National Institute of Mental Health has proposed a new procedure to give closer scrutiny to psychiatric experiments that pose high risks to human subjects.
Steven E. Hyman said in an interview last week that he would ask the agency's advisory board to carefully examine studies in which researchers deprive patients suffering from psychosis or schizophrenia of medication for prolonged
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