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By now, everyone has seen footage of the horrible damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast more than 1,000 people dead, more than a million displaced, cities flooded and left in ruins.
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One unexpected result from Hurricane Katrina has been a sharp increase in proposals for social-behavioral studies, as social scientists seek to find out how Katrina survivors and evacuees have responded to the disaster.
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Are investigators morally obligated to provide research participants with the chance to see the results from the studies in which they enroll and should IRBs require them to do so?
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In late September, OHRP issued guidance concerning IRB review of clinical trial web sites. The guidance, which can be viewed at OHRPs web site, states that IRB review is required when information on a clinical trial web site includes more information than the study title, the purpose of the study, the protocol summary, basic eligibility criteria, study site locations, and how to get more information on the study.
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Are dangerous errors going undetected at your organization? Or are some types of errors being carefully tracked, but without action taken to prevent similar mistakes?
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The use of opioids for pain relief is limited by what some have called opiophobia, or the fear that patients will become addicted to the drugs. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has spelled out a means of addressing the drawbacks to opioid therapy and reducing the fear of prescribing opioids.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) found its sweeping new ethics changes were proving a hard pill for its employees to swallow. As a result, they supplemented it with proposals that respond to actual and threatened resignations by some of the key NIH employees who say the new regulation, which requires employees to divest themselves of outside consulting and investments with pharmaceutical and biotech industries, is too restrictive.
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Illinois has become the first state to enact legislation based on the idea that an apology might serve as the most effective means to stop some medical malpractice lawsuits.
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A convicted murderer who sought a reprieve so he could donate his liver to his ill sister was executed in May after Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniel was advised by doctors that Gregory Scott Johnson was not a good candidate to be a donor, and that his sister, Debra Otis, would likely receive a donor organ through regular channels within a matter of months. Johnsons bid to become an organ donor resurrected debate about the ethics of accepting organs from condemned inmates.
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Accepted clinical therapies developed from embryonic stem cell research may be years away, but now is the time for health care providers to ask themselves where they stand on the use of treatments derived from human embryos.
