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Anew study adds to the growing body of evidence that surveying people about past trauma doesn't put them at increased risk for harm.
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Primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) bring together physicians and clinicians in practices across the country to research how patients are treated in a primary care setting.
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As IRBs review research proposals that may include illegal immigrants or even recruit them outright those who work with this population say there are a number of issues boards should consider:
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The clinical research community has begun to accept the presence of clinical trial registries, despite lingering questions about intellectual property rights and other issues.
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Arecent study suggests that emergency medicine patients may not have a high level of acceptance of the practice of providing an exemption to informed consent for research involving emergency medical settings.
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As the national debate about illegal immigration heats up across the country, researchers continue to work to include such immigrants in their studies.
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Does the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) plan to release guidelines this year clarifying what is and isn't research requiring IRB review?
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Research compliance can be defined a variety of ways, and the trick is for institutions to define and understand the types of noncompliance that are reportable to federal agencies, a compliance expert says.
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As funding barriers are slowly being chipped away in California and some other parts of the country, increasing numbers of institutions are forming stem cell research oversight committees (SCROs), or embryonic stem cell research oversight committees (ESCRO), which often have some overlapping responsibilities with IRBs.
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The archives of medical colleges and hospitals can be a rich source of information for historians interested in how health care has been delivered throughout our nation's history. Old case files, collections of physicians' personal papers, even old photographs were donated to archives so that others could learn from them decades later.
