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Be sure to include questions on alcohol consumption during adolescent screenings. Why? Results of a new analysis of national data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that more than one in four U.S. teens and young adults admit they are binge drinkers.
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A Guttmacher Institute analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data reveals the number of U.S. women ages 15-44 covered by private insurance dropped between 2008 and 2009, as widespread job losses resulted in many Americans losing their employer-based insurance.
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Get ready to recommend flu vaccine to your pregnant and postpartum patients. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), less than one-fourth of pregnant women in the United States were vaccinated against seasonal influenza during the 2007-08 flu season.
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While increased use of contraception has contributed to declines in teen pregnancy over the past two decades, the methods most teens choose oral contraceptive pills or condoms require ongoing maintenance and carry a high possibility of user errors.
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If you think your facility's efforts to stem the spread of HIV is working, you might need to redouble your efforts. Results of a new analysis of 21 major U.S. cities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate approximately one in five (19%) men who have sex with men (MSM) in a study is infected with HIV, and nearly half (44%) of those men are unaware of their infection.
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One of the strangest new areas of research ethics involves how IRBs should handle research that involves Internet communities, including virtual communities.
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Researchers go to all sorts of lengths to attract participants for surveys and other types of non-clinical research recruiting Psych 101 students, posting fliers, handing out gift cards, etc. But a new method of recruitment takes advantage of an existing Internet trend toward outsourcing tasks to thousands of computer users around the world.
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The recent shocking disclosure that U.S. public health officials sanctioned a study in Guatemala 64 years ago in which people were deliberately infected with sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) for research purposes has brought home the message to IRBs that transparency is absolutely critical in human subjects research.
