Pritchard worked in the Office for Human Research Protections for 20 years and retired as the senior adviser to the director of OHRP in 2024. Deciding whether to participate in a clinical research ...

Megan covers the intersection of science and society. How is biomedical research funded? Who benefits? And how do new technologies reflect and shape our values? You can reach Megan on Signal at ...

Human mobility research intersects with various disciplines, with profound implications for urban planning, transportation engineering, public health, disaster management, and economic analysis. Here, ...

Menu Application Process and Forms Training Reference Materials IRB Member Access To comply with federal regulations and Miami policies, research involving human subjects requires that researchers be ...

Human research trials at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia have been paused while regulators review whether protocols were violated. By Ellen Barry Federal regulators have suspended ...

With the growing integration of genomics into clinical medicine [1], the scale, scope and complexity of genomic research is inevitably increasing [2]. There are many ethical considerations associated ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was enacted by the U.S. Congress to regulate the protection of private health information for ...

Pueblo Bonito, a massive stone great house in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico Andrew Kearns via Flickr Under CC BY-SA 2.0 The 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has brought fresh attention to ...

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The Institutional Review Board is a local review board, established by the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees in accord with federal regulations, to interpret and apply federal regulations, ...