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President Barack Obama's long-stated goal for universal health insurance could have a ripple effect on the human subjects research field, possibly removing an incentive for people to enter clinical trails. That is one of several possible changes on the horizon as a new administration takes the helm, experts tell IRB Advisor.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of Rockville, MD, announced in October, 2008, that Jerry A. Menikoff, MD, JD, is the new director.
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The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of Rockville, MD, recently added "OHRP Correspondence" to its Regulations and Policy Guidance portion of its Web site as part of an effort to improve transparency and provide some specific examples of how to interpret various guidelines.
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Research with adolescents who are at risk for suicide can create daunting ethical and practical challenges for investigators and IRBs.
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Despite general agreement that medicine and medical research need to do more to meet the needs of pregnant women, there still are serious roadblocks that prevent wider enrollment of women during pregnancy.
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Helen McGough, MA, CIP, is retired from the office of research at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and has worked as a faculty member of PRIM&R. McGough also has worked with the Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI), and she served on an IRB for many years.
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When the home health nurses at Little Rock, AR-based Baptist Health Home Health Network began observing that many of their patients had poorly managed chronic diseases and were not receiving evidence-based care, the network designed a new approach to delivering care for patients with chronic diseases.
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A photonovela became a master's project for Laura Nimmon, MA, a doctoral fellow with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in Victoria, British Columbia.
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A photonovela is part of the diabetes tool kit Sharon A. Denham, RN, DSN, professor of nursing at Ohio University School of Nursing in Athens and director of the Appalachian Rural Health Institute, is creating for use in the Appalachian region. It will address family support for patients with diabetes.
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An overweight nurse with diabetes who works for Little Rock, AR-based Baptist Health System summed up the key to the success of the 2020 Health Solutions disease management program: "Knowing that you are going to be looking at my blood sugar levels helps me be consistent in taking my medication and checking my blood sugar," she told her disease management nurse, Paula Evans, MSN, RN, CCM, CS.
