IRB Advisor – March 1, 2009
March 1, 2009
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Big: National Children's Study faces full-grown questions, ethical issues
In planning the recently launched National Children's Study (NCS), researchers knew that ethical and IRB issues would be front and center. -
Study raises thorny questions about research on pregnant teens
Because of the unusual scope of the National Children's Study (NCS), it raises a significant range of ethical issues for its designers and for the IRBs that have been reviewing it at 105 study centers across the United States. -
Famous obedience study recreated at least in part
The 1960s obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram have become a hallmark of social behavioral research, as well as a cautionary tale for those involved in human subjects protection. -
Comparing two studies: A painful balancing act
In trying to replicate the Milgram obedience experiments, social psychologist Jerry Burger had to balance the goal of getting useful results that were roughly comparable with Milgram's, while providing more protection for participants from severe stress. -
Cyber-age tech raises novel ethics for IRBs
Researchers at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, are studying physical interventions used in a virtual world. Their work opens new horizons for rehabilitation clinical care, but also raises new questions for ethics review boards. -
Brain-injured pt studied in a virtual kitchen
As virtual space technology improves, researchers are beginning to study how it can be used to help patients who've suffered traumatic brain injuries or other impairments that require rehabilitation. -
Software Solutions: eIRB will integrate IRB with everyone else
The IRB office at the Washington University in St. Louis, MO, (WUSTL) will soon have an electronic system that will connect the IRB submission with every other application principal investigators (PIs) need to make. -
Informed consent flexibility needs to be taught to PIs
IRBs that deal with social-behavioral-educational research might need to give investigators who also conduct biomedical research updated information and education about how to handle informed consent.