Guidelines

This page provides access to various national and international guidelines pertaining to new drug development, drug promotion and the practice of medicine. These are not CDMU guidelines but CDMU agrees with the spirit of these guidelines and recommends them to all concerned people. Majority of the documents are also available online in the public domain. The text has been presented without any modification by CDMU.

The following guidelines are currently available:

Nuremberg code [1949]	Download >>
World Medical Association International Code of Medical Ethics	Download >>
World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects [2002]	Download >>
Indian Council of Medical Research: Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Subjects [2000]	Download >>
WHO Operational Guidelines for Ethics Committees that Review Biomedical Research [2000]	Download >>
Surveying and Evaluating Ethical Review Practices: A Complimentary Guideline to the WHO Operational Guidelines for Ethics Committees that Review Biomedical Research [2002]	Download >>
WHO Guidelines for good clinical practice (GCP) for trials on pharmaceutical products [1995]	Download >>
International Conference on Harmonization Guideline on Good Clinical Practice [2002]	Download >>
The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials [2001]	Download >>
WHO Ethical Criteria for Medicinal drug Promotion	Download >>
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices [1994]	Download >>