The choice of an appropriate substitute mechanism (for example, appointing a child advocate or an assent monitor) for protecting the children would depend on the nature and purpose of the activities ...

INTRODUCTION/ PI RESPONSIBILITIES: Federal Regulations [45 CFR 46.103(b)(5) and 21 CFR 56.108(b)(1)] and UAB IRB policy (POL006) requires Principal Investigators of all human subject’s research ...

Three fundamental principles guide the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects. These principles come from The Belmont Report, a statement of basic ethical principles and guidelines that ...

Men and women have a similar chance of contracting COVID-19, but the death rate for men who do get it is more than double that for women. This difference has implications for treatment and public ...

When an investigator promises confidentiality, the subject is asked to supply information that could potentially identify that subject, which is then linked to the research data collected from the ...

Full Board (level 3) reviewed research activities require review through a convened meeting and a majority vote of approval by the IRB.. Occurs during Expedited (level 2) review, an IRB member calls ...

Sadly, there is a long history of the unethical treatment of human subjects in various types of medical and biological research. For example, one of the most notorious clinical studies of all time ...

The ethical concerns about risks that arise during human subjects research can also be relevant to other activities, such as methods classes and program evaluations. The following is a compilation of ...

When conducting in-person human subject research at WMU, the following considerations must be addressed before face-to-face research can begin: 1. The risk/benefit ratio of research involving ...

A sk a given person what they know about the history of the use of African-Americans as unwilling research subjects and they are likely to mention one infamous incident: Tuskegee. “Such a ...

In the 21 st century, we are all research subjects in a global psychological experiment, one in which a child’s life is digitized, downloaded, and distributed online without his or her consent.