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Updated Common Rule: ‘Massive Improvement’ For Human Subjects Research
The long-awaited updated Common Rule for federal regulations for ethical conduct of human subjects research is quite different from what was initially proposed.
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Study: Scientifically Unproven Marketing Claims Very Common on Websites
Marketing claims on websites of complementary and alternative medicine therapies practitioners regarding allergy and asthma often included interventions that were not scientifically supported, according to a new study.
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Committee Says Human Genome Editing Ethically Permissible — Under Certain Conditions
Stringent oversight might be necessary in order for heritable germline editing clinical trials to be conducted, according to a new report indicating use of the technique could be ethically permissible, but only for treating or preventing serious diseases.
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Overly Strict Criteria For Clinical Trials Is Ethical Problem
Clinical trials routinely use overly strict enrollment criteria, found a recent study.
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Student Receives IRB Approval to Collect and Display Comments From Sexual Assault Victims
A Notre Dame student received approval for her design project including the statements of sexual assault victims.
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A Consent Consult Helps New Researchers With Informed Consent
IRBs can teach researchers how to create informed consent forms, but perhaps what they most need are lessons in how to handle the consent process.
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Here Is a Nutshell Look at Ways to Improve Compliance
The Montclair State University IRB in Montclair, NJ, has a variety of strategies to improve research protection compliance, including providing educational materials with eye-catching infographics.
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IRB Gets New Researchers’ Attention With Visually Clever Infographics
As the IRB at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, worked on creating a culture of compliance, IRB leaders learned that new researchers, including students, pay more attention to policies and regulations when they’re spelled out in more pictures than words.
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Social Media Research Recruitment Checklist
The following are key points summarized from a recently published checklist for IRB evaluation of social medial recruitment proposals from investigators.
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Ethical Issues of Research Recruiting on Social Media
Not surprisingly, the exploding social media landscape is fraught with ethical intrigue for researchers who seek to recruit human research subjects for clinical trials.