Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology

Ravicz K

Publications

• Perspective Article
  Legal and Ethical Aspects of Wireless Health
  Author(s): Atalla K, Chaudhary A, Eshaghian-Wilner MM, Gupta A, Mehta R, Nayak A, Ravicz K, Shiroma B and Trivedi PAtalla K, Chaudhary A, Eshaghian-Wilner MM, Gupta A, Mehta R, Nayak A, Ravicz K, Shiroma B and Trivedi P
  
  Nanomedicine is a revolutionary field with the potential to vastly improve healthcare worldwide. Despite these benefits, the revolutionary rather than evolutionary nature of these new medicines raises unforeseen problems relating to ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory law. Ethical issues include the risks posed to users of a drug during the research and development stage, unequal distribution of new medicines, and the possibility for genetic self-enhancement. Privacy issues involve laws that do not adequately protect people’s privacy and the possibility for genetic discrimination based on increasingly accessible genetic information. Intellectual property issues are primarily concerned with the balance between protecting nanomedicine-related intellectual property rights and the desire to encourage future innovation. Nanomedicine is .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7439.1000367

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