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Beginning July 2, hospitals must begin a new process of notifying Medicare beneficiaries of their discharge appeal rights.
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Commercial tissue repositories looking for sources of human tissue, and hospitals that discard tissue from surgeries daily, could appear to be a match made in heaven.
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When an IRB is confronted with reviewing an unfamiliar commercial collaboration to collect human tissue, it doesn't have to work in a vacuum.
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As studies become geared toward narrow research questions, targeting specific groups, IRB members will have an even more challenging time resolving ethical dilemmas and weighing risks and benefits.
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Media attention on research conflicts of interest has made it imperative that IRBs be aware of a wider variety of potential conflicts of interest than what they may have considered in the past, experts say.
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It's an accepted truism among many in biomedical research: Blacks won't participate at the same rates as other ethnic groups, because of fear of being exploited, thanks to the legacy of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
