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A recent study has found that researchers acknowledge engaging in "normal misbehaviors" in their everyday research life, including abusing post-doctorate students, taking credit when it's not due, culling data based on experience, and shabby documentation.
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As if it weren't enough keeping track of the intricacies of federal regulation of human subjects research, IRBs also must keep a sharp eye on state law, and the various areas where it puts additional or simply different demands on them.
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Nearly 800 people have worked to earn a certified IRB professional (CIP) designation in the six years since the first CIP exam was given.
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Even before doctors in France performed a thus-far successful transplant of a partial face in November 2005, experts in the United States had the expertise and knowledge to transplant a face. What they have lacked is the right person to receive the graft.
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Knowing that you have hit on the ideal medication for your patient's condition is a satisfying feeling. But if you fail to ask one important question before handing him the prescription "Can you afford this medicine?" your careful thought may have been wasted.
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Abraham Cherrix is a 15-year-old boy with Hodgkin's disease. He's also an Internet-savvy free thinker who doesn't want to do another round of chemotherapy and radiation; what he wants to do is go to Mexico for a controversial herbal treatment he hopes will cure him.
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A gravely ill Sephardic Jew came to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from his home in Israel, hoping to find a successful treatment for his terminal cancer. The treatment did not yield the results he had hoped, but chaplain Rabbi Levi Meier visited his room with something more comforting than medicine.
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Clinical trials involving gene therapy are considered to be of great enough real and potential risk that they are not attempted in children before they have been conducted with adults.
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