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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of Rockville, MD, announced in October, 2008, that Jerry A. Menikoff, MD, JD, is the new director.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of Rockville, MD, recently added "OHRP Correspondence" to its Regulations and Policy Guidance portion of its Web site as part of an effort to improve transparency and provide some specific examples of how to interpret various guidelines.
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Research with adolescents who are at risk for suicide can create daunting ethical and practical challenges for investigators and IRBs.
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Despite general agreement that medicine and medical research need to do more to meet the needs of pregnant women, there still are serious roadblocks that prevent wider enrollment of women during pregnancy.
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Helen McGough, MA, CIP, is retired from the office of research at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and has worked as a faculty member of PRIM&R. McGough also has worked with the Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI), and she served on an IRB for many years.
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This is the first in a two-part series about the hidden risks and liabilities of medical helicopters.
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When a medical helicopter goes down, there often is more than one cause. Bad risk assessment, insufficient technology, and pilot error can combine to create a tragedy.
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If you are going to use medical helicopters, Don Maciejewski, JD, an aviation attorney with the Jacksonville, FL, law firm of Zisser Robison, recommends that risk managers be prepared for the worst. Make sure you are adequately insured to cover the payouts from a crash that kills five people on a nonurgent mission, he says.
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A hospital in New York is at the center of a storm of criticism, bad publicity, and possible criminal charges after an employee failed to report the gunshot wound of NFL star Plaxico Burress, as required by law.
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Emergency department physicians and nurses are deeply concerned about the ability of the nation's hospitals to deal with the medical implications of a radioactive dirty bomb or other terrorist attacks involving radioactive materials, according to a new study. Experts say the findings should be a warning to risk managers that action is needed.
