For years journalists and others have questioned the ethics of public relations practitioners and firms. People in PR, however, appear to be getting a bad rap. That's what a new study funded by the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State University has found.

Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical ranking covering a universe of 541 multinationals within 18 sectors. Top three spaces are shared between Intel Corporation, HSBC Bank and IBM respectively.

After much critique and fighting to save his nomination for the HHS secretary Tom Daschle today withdrew his candidacy for the nomination for the HHS Secretary post. Yesterday Daschle apologized and said he was deeply embarrassed because of the oversight on the tax return issue.

MONTCLAIR — What should and shouldn’t make the sports section of a newspaper. Who should be writing the stories? And what procedures are in place to ensure that a story on ESPN’s 24 hour news channel is accurate?

Several hundred Ethiopian and Malaysian employees of the global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell are suing the company for alleged unlawful acts in relation to employee retirement funds. Shell has already faced similar litigation by its employees in South Africa. Is there a racial discrimination aspect to these cases?

The morally indefensible business relationship of Royal Dutch Shell with an Iranian regime supplying roadside bombs to blow up American and British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan

Many sets of guidelines and regulations, and great differences among countries. This is what medical researchers encounter if they want to use previously collected samples from biobanks in their research. For one thing, this makes it extremely complicated to carry out major international studies.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is defending its growing practice of jointly funding research with industry, after lobby groups voiced concerns that the agency's science is being compromised. Over half the EPA's 70 active cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) are now with industry - dwarfing the number it holds with universities or local governments.

U.S. Senator Larry Craig of the northwestern state of Idaho announced his resignation Saturday after being arrested in June in an undercover sex sting.

NBC 5 Chicago reporter Amy Jacobson is caught in bikini at Craig Stebic's (who's wife has disappeared) pool party.

When African professionals migrate to the United States or Europe, it’s often called brain drain. In the world of research ethics, at least one training program is causing the opposite effect.