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The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has recommended changes to current practices to better protect research subjects and to improve its tracking of research programs...
Please use the most up to date forms and applications when submitting for IRB review and approval. Using older forms may delay the processing of your application (and causing minor headaches for...
OHRP has released the 2012 edition of the International Compilation of Human Research Standards which lists over 1,000 laws, regulations, and guidelines on human subjects protections in over 100...
The Office for Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) has released information about their adoption of the new edition of the Guide for Use of Laboratory Animals (8th Edition). OLAW requests public...
Interested in learning about human research regulations?
November 21, 2011 at 1:00 pm. Tune in to WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show for a discussion "Rethinking the 'Common Rule': The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects". The show features Jerry Menikoff,...
The comment period for the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on how current regulations for protecting human subjects has changed and will end, on October 26, 2011. See the September...
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued an updated final rule on conflict of interest to use in identifying, managing, and avoiding investigators’ financial conflicts of interest....
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), titled Human Subjects Protections:...
ORPC has updated the Exempt Category Example Chart to assist investigators in determining if their research fits into one or more of the exempt categories.