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As the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration moves deliberatively toward an infectious diseases standard, two paradigms could spell very different fates for a proposed rule.
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April 27 in Tuscaloosa, AL, started with eerie expectation, with warnings of severe weather and reports of tornadoes. By the afternoon, "it was very quiet, very dark and quite warm," says Beth Francis, SPHR, vice president for human resources for the DCH Health System in Tuscaloosa. "We knew the area was quite susceptible to being hit."
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It's official: Safe patient handling is one of the U.S. public health achievements of the decade.
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All IRBs and IRB offices need to set up succession plans to ensure continuity in the event the IRB director or chair leave abruptly.
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Applying community engagement to mental health research can help researchers about design studies that incorporate the priorities of people with mental illness and arrive at the best strategies for working with them.
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As high school students get exposed to more sophisticated science and health programs, some are also having their first encounters with human subjects protection issues.
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Seeing a need for ethics guidance for local groups attempting to conduct community-based research, an organization in Kitchener, Ontario, has created an independent Community Research Ethics Office (CREO).
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Major research institutions can improve their IRBs' efficiency and protocol review quality by making the best use of a resource they have in abundance: expert professors and scientists.
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An IRB dedicated to handling cancer research has shown benefits in efficiency and expertise when such a specialty IRB model is employed.
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Researchers say there need to be more clinical trials examining the safety and effectiveness of pain medications used with children, which are too often administered based on information from adult trials.
