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Over the past decade, obstetricians have noted an interesting phenomenon more women rejecting the concept of a natural birth and requesting elective cesarean deliveries, sometimes called patient-choice cesareans or cesareans on demand.
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CEJA Guidelines for Internet Use
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As new information technologies continue to make person-to-person communications easier and more varied, they also are transforming the way that health care can be provided.
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Independence Blue Cross takes a three-pronged approach to helping members manage their health care with its newly expanded Connections SM Health Management Program.
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A document exploring the implications of using biotechnical powers for reasons beyond therapy takes up controversial issues such as the prospect of creating designer babies and questions whether such scientific advances are possible and ethical.
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Question: Does the Food and Drug Administration require that an IRB have a certain number of members?
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It has been five years since a complaint from the father of a study subject was lodged about a longitudinal study at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond a complaint that precipitated a shutdown of all research involving human subjects.
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For more than two centuries, the small communities that make up the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on the countrys most northeastern coast, were largely isolated from the rest of the world.
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IRBs and the research community soon may have new guidance in defining and clarifying some of the gray areas in regulations of human subject protection.
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As awareness of IRBs and human subjects research protection increases among the public and staff at institutions, IRB members sometimes are asked to consider new gray areas regarding studies that typically havent made it to the IRBs radar screen.