Legal protection of the rights of clinical trial subjects in China

摘要

Subjects in clinical trials,either patients with the target disease or healthy volunteers,inevitably run a risk of injury or even death.To protect human subjects'rights to life and health,the Declaration of Helsinki has been developed as"a statement of ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects"^([1])Though widely regarded as a milestone in human research ethics,it is not a law or regulation,and is unable to effectively protect human subjects'rights.In