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IRBs and germline editing research: The outer limits of oversight
Guest columnist J. Benjamin Hurlbut, PhD, discusses human germline editing research and the role IRBs could play in research ethics.
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Human germline gene editing holds great promise, dire possibilities
An international summit on human gene editing recently concluded with a consensus statement to continue basic research in the controversial area, but warned against any clinical trials or human experiments because “once introduced into the human population, genetic alterations would be difficult to remove and would not remain within any single community or country.”
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Using eFeedback helps promote subject safety
Seattle Children’s Research Institute in Seattle found that an eFeedback tool helps the organization improve and ensure the safety of pediatric patients who are enrolled in clinical trials.
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A sample of IRB’s comprehensive training manual
The human research protection office at Washington University in St. Louis has a 43-page training tool that covers general and specific research protection information and tasks for new IRB staff.
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IRBs Train Staff to be Experts
Here's how one human research protection program developed a formal training program that empowered its staff.
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FIRST study proves a point, but which one?
A controversial study that was branded as unethical by some critics because it altered surgical residents’ training hours without informed consent from patients has found that “flexible, less restrictive” duty hours did not increase patient mortality or serious complications.
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French study’s death recalls 2006 UK clinical trial disaster
It was an unsettling sense of deja vu for researchers and bioethicists when French authorities reported in January that one man died and five others were seriously injured after being administered an investigational drug in a Phase I clinical trial.
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Should infection control research be IRB exempt?
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology warns that proposed revisions to the Common Rule may have unintended consequences if infection prevention research is not excluded from approval by IRBs.
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This IRB “party” gets the job done
There might be a simple solution to IRB workflow issues that stem from graduate student research cycles: A party.
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Strategies for improving study recruitment of minorities
Investigators and IRBs are finding a variety of ways to increase minority representation in studies and clinical trials, including policies mandating such recruitment.