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Is It Personal or Just Business Between Aetna, DOJ?
In response to the feds, a letter reveals the insurance juggernaut may be leaving healthcare exchanges over a suit that halted a proposed blockbuster merger.
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The Vitals - August 2016
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Another Call for Transparency in Clinical Trials
The demand for clinical trial transparency and research results continues to gain momentum, as it was recently reported that almost half of the data from randomized clinical trials from four sponsors registered at ClinicalTrials.gov were not available to researchers.
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Report: Socioeconomic Factors Undercut Participation in Internet Studies
Launched by the federal government last year, the Precision Medicine Initiative is a disease prevention and treatment model that is envisioned as linking access to genetic information with the expanding reach of the internet to form research “cohorts” of racially and socially diverse subjects.
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Governor Signs Off on State Law Requiring Oversight of UM Psych Drug Research
Culminating a turbulent saga that began with the suicide of a research subject more than a decade ago, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has signed into law a bill that gives the state unprecedented control and oversight of psychiatric drug research at the University of Minnesota.
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Educating IRB Members in 10 Hours or More
A common challenge for IRBs is educating board members who come from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience.
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Pre-review Process Can Result in Satisfied Research Staff
A research institution has found that a model way to improve collaboration between research protection staff and research staff is through a study initiation program.
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ReguBingo Sample is Focused on Conflicts of Interest
The Southern California Kaiser Permanente IRB of Pasadena has created ReguBingo, a new game for IRBs to use to teach IRB members, staff, researchers and research staff, and others about human research protection regulations.
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Study Links Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy to Behavioral Issues
But a closer inspection of the data casts doubt on severity of problem.