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The absorption of thyroxine is strongly influenced by stomach acidity, according to new study.
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A well-organized record keeping system is essential to IRB functions. IRB and research offices might improve their office documentation and efficiency by following a best practice model established by a large research institution.
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A trial studying antipsychotic drugs provides best practices for handling ethical issues involving decisionally impaired persons. The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) schizophrenia study was an 18-month study in which it was anticipated that some participants would lose decision-making capacity during the course of the study.
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Thanks to a volunteer recruitment registry at Vanderbilt University, potential research subjects even those not currently being treated at the university's medical center or by affiliated doctors can make their names and health information available for future use.
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A well-run human research quality improvement (QI) program can be an IRB's best friend, working with investigators to help them prevent common mistakes and to communicate better with the IRB, while avoiding the back-and-forth questioning that can drag out the review process.
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A new technology solution can help research institutions with a nagging logistical problem ever-larger files that must be routed within an institution or to external partners.
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A new journal about research ethics includes articles in June 2006, that discuss how the ethics review process has gone wrong for qualitative research, including ethnography.
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UK clinical trial disaster: Five subjects sent home; NIH launches MedlinePlus Magazine for public; GAO: Improve post-approval drug oversight
