World Health Organization to Ethicists: Should We Use Experimental Ebola Drugs?

Monday, August 11, 2014 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Use of an untested Ebola drug stirs the ethics debate on whether experimental therapies can be used in Africa.

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