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Feds consider legislation that would tighten research, IRB regulations
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Special series: IRB Software for the Millennium - Software used by Texas IRB handles entire process
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Spotlight on Compliance: Maryland legislation could be model for other states
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OHRP offers primer on IRB procedures
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Under scrutiny: IRB shopping
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Here’s how an IRB uses iMedRIS software
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Concerns over risk to pediatric participants lead to study's end
A controversial pesticide exposure study involving Florida babies and toddlers has been canceled in the wake of criticism that it targeted lower-income families, offered too much financial compensation, and exposed children to too high a risk of harm. -
News Briefs
The Office for Human Research Protections of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has added a new page to its web site detailing the history of the Belmont Report. -
Trying to reign in a few difficult PIs?
Every compliance department has encountered the occasional investigator who causes staff to pop antacid pills the minute he or she walks into the room. And such personalities may have been tolerated in the past, with todays tighter focus on research compliance and ethical concerns, such personalities now can be a real problem. -
Stem cell research needs separate oversight
The National Academies have released a set of recommended guidelines for research using human embryonic stem cells, advising research institutions to establish separate oversight committees for such research.