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Next Challenge for IRBs: Nanomedicine Research Risks
IRB members soon will see — if they haven’t already — protocols involving medical therapies with materials that are so tiny that a human hair is 80,000 times their width.
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Diverse Populations Joining NIH All of Us
Nearly a quarter of a million people have joined the National Institutes of Health’s ambitious All of Us precision medicine initiative — with a large response from racial and ethnic minorities who have been historically victimized or ignored by human research.
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Should IRBs Set an Incentive Pay Limit?
Not all IRBs and research institutions specifically address limits to how much researchers can compensate study participants. But allowing these limits to default to what is reportable to the IRS as income could be a mistake, one IRB chair says.
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Electronic Informed Consent Platform Enhances Education and Engagement
Since Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center implemented the electronic informed consent process, thousands of research participants have consented electronically, increasing at a rate of about 500 per month.
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A Half-Century Later, Guatemala Experiments Still Horrify
Bioethicists recently published a case study of this horrific chapter in human research history after comprehensively reviewing all the records of the Guatemala experiments. The most egregious aspect was that some participants were intentionally infected with syphilis and other STDs.
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Microsoft Breach Reveals Risk From Cloud-Based Data Storage
A recent attack on email servers at Microsoft raises questions about the security of protected health information on servers that healthcare organizations use.
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Jussie Smollett Incident Shows Need for HIPAA Training, Audits
Firing employees after improper snooping can be appropriate after the fact, but the better solution would be to stop the intrusions in the first place, experts say.
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Defense Verdict Vacated in Case of Patient Death Due to Alleged Negligent Preoperative Care
While this case focused on an important legal procedural question, it reveals the types of evidence that may be properly used against healthcare providers in pending malpractice actions.
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Appellate Court Affirms Newborn’s Blindness Not Caused by Physician Negligence
The most important lesson to be learned from this case is that choosing the right expert is crucial — and selecting the wrong expert can be fatal to a party’s case.
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Criminal Charges Can Creep Up on Clinicians, Administrators
Some activities are particularly prone to criminal prosecution if risk managers are unaware of exactly how they are being conducted in the organization.