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Masks and respirators cannot safely be reused during an influenza pandemic - but if there is no choice, cover them with another mask or face shield, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel advises.
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Pandemics are unpredictable. While history offers useful benchmarks, there is no way to know the characteristics of a pandemic virus before it emerges.
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Neighborhoods are sealed off with barbed wire fences. The trucking industry has collapsed, and basics such as food and medicine are in short supply.
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Despite widespread conversion to sharps safety devices, hospitals are more likely to be cited for violations of the bloodborne pathogens standard than any other standard.
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UK clinical trial disaster: Five subjects sent home; NIH launches MedlinePlus Magazine for public; GAO: Improve post-approval drug oversight
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A new journal about research ethics includes articles in June 2006, that discuss how the ethics review process has gone wrong for qualitative research, including ethnography.
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A new technology solution can help research institutions with a nagging logistical problem ever-larger files that must be routed within an institution or to external partners.
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A well-run human research quality improvement (QI) program can be an IRB's best friend, working with investigators to help them prevent common mistakes and to communicate better with the IRB, while avoiding the back-and-forth questioning that can drag out the review process.
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Thanks to a volunteer recruitment registry at Vanderbilt University, potential research subjects even those not currently being treated at the university's medical center or by affiliated doctors can make their names and health information available for future use.
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A trial studying antipsychotic drugs provides best practices for handling ethical issues involving decisionally impaired persons. The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) schizophrenia study was an 18-month study in which it was anticipated that some participants would lose decision-making capacity during the course of the study.