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As IRBs review research proposals that may include illegal immigrants or even recruit them outright those who work with this population say there are a number of issues boards should consider:
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The clinical research community has begun to accept the presence of clinical trial registries, despite lingering questions about intellectual property rights and other issues.
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Arecent study suggests that emergency medicine patients may not have a high level of acceptance of the practice of providing an exemption to informed consent for research involving emergency medical settings.
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As the national debate about illegal immigration heats up across the country, researchers continue to work to include such immigrants in their studies.
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Does the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) plan to release guidelines this year clarifying what is and isn't research requiring IRB review?
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Research compliance can be defined a variety of ways, and the trick is for institutions to define and understand the types of noncompliance that are reportable to federal agencies, a compliance expert says.
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The Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) represents the one completely focused platform to exchange preclinical and clinical information in the subspeciality of gynecologic oncology. This year more that 1300 health care providers, researchers and industry representatives participated in a conference offering much more than distribution of the latest scientific and clinical advances.
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Worldwide, coffee is a popular beverage used daily with increasing frequency. Caffeine, a dominant ingredient, has been implicated in many conditions including hormonally active cancer (due to its impact on sex hormone binding globulin [SHBG] homeostasis).