Behind groundbreaking discoveries is a robust system dedicated to protecting human research participants. At the heart of this robust system at Case Western Reserve University is Kim Volarcik, whose ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Oct. 25, 2024, issued nonsubstantive amendments to subparts B, C and D of 45 CFR Part 46, which ...

In 1979, the National Commission published The Belmont Report, which identifies three basic principles for the ethical conduct of research with human subjects: respect for persons, beneficence, and ...

The 519-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) released Wednesday will make protections for human research subjects more uniform by streamlining some informed consent rules and using other means to ...

The University at Buffalo recognizes its obligation to protect the rights and welfare of human subject research participants and to ensure research integrity. Accordingly, all significant ...

In a remarkable federal human subject research policy development, it appears that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections ...

Research means a systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Human subject means a living ...

The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects or the “Common Rule” outlines specific regulations for human subjects research. The Common Rule is heavily based on the "The Belmont Report," ...

The mission of Pratt Institute’s Human Research Subjects Committee / Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to ensure quality research involving human subjects conducted under the auspices of the ...