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IRBs Can Learn to Deal With Medical Innovation Ambiguity
The lines between research and medical innovation can be blurry. When does a new surgical practice cross from case study to a study that must adhere to human research protection regulations?
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IRB Overhauls Its Minutes Template, Saving Time and Reducing Words
Before the revision, 23% of minutes were sent out within the same week as the IRB meeting. Now, 63% of minutes are sent out during the same week.
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Children’s Hospital Improves Assent-Consent With Animation Board Video
When a children’s hospital needed to approach research informed consent and pediatric assent with more creativity and flair, the research office asked children for input.
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HIV Research Poses Unique Ethical Issues
When IRBs review HIV studies, particularly those aimed at finding a cure to the disease, there are some tricky ethical challenges that might not be seen in other types of research.
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HIV Cure Research Includes Tricky Ethical Challenges
Some geneticists compared the work by He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, to the pioneering in vitro fertilization efforts that resulted in the birth of Louise Brown in 1978. Many others criticized the scientist for the ethical issues his experiment raised.
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Informed Consent Rule Changes Could Help IRBs, Expand Research
The FDA has issued a proposed rule that some say would provide research institutions with much-needed clarity on informed consent regulations and open the door to clinical breakthroughs.
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Ethical Challenges of Paying Addicted Participants
Financial compensation and HIV/HCV testing elicited trust and motivated an addicted population to participate in research, according to the authors of a recent report examining the ethical issues that can arise when intravenous drug addicts are paid for their research participation.
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Small World, Big Data: International Research Collaborations
The National Institutes of Health has encouraged international collaboration in the Human Genome Project and other precision medicine research.
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Researcher: Measure the Quality and Efficacy of IRBs
While it is intuitive that IRB oversight effectively protects human research subjects from ethical breaches and other risks, there is surprisingly little data on the quality and performance of review boards.
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NIH Marshalling Data Defenses for All of Us Project
In a disarmingly frank lecture in an ethics training course at the National Institutes of Health, a leader of the landmark All of Us project shared some of the concerns that come with the immense responsibility of collecting data on 1 million people.