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A special task force of the American Psychological Association studying the tensions between IRBs and psychology researchers has released a list of recommendations on how to address those tensions.
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Studies involving terrorism or disaster victims should receive extra attention and concern from the IRB, but not always for the reasons IRB members suspect, an expert says.
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The recommendations of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on IRBs and Psychological Science focus on giving IRBs and psychological researchers a better understanding of each other's methods and motivations, as well as generating more useful data about how the two groups interact.
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Fledgling student investigators at universities can find human subjects protection regulations complicated and overwhelming and the IRB bureaucracy intimidating and scary.
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How IRBs should handle incidental findings is becoming such a notable issue among IRB professionals that there was a recent conference devoted to the topic.
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Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is the leading cause of death and injury due to poisoning in the United States, and the worldwide incidence of CO poisoning is estimated to be largely under-diagnosed, with more than one-third of all cases going undetected.
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Ill food service workers propagated a massive outbreak of norovirus in Michigan last year that eventually sickened 364 restaurant patrons and 32 workers.
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Not enough is known about how to protect health care workers in an influenza pandemic, and that lack of knowledge critically weakens the nation's preparedness, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel has concluded.
