Human Subjects Research & IRBs Archives

Clinical Trials & Studies, Cultural, Editorial-AJOB, Health Disparities, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Justice, Research Ethics, Social Justice

Beyond the Belmont Report

by Wamia Siddiqui, BS and Richard R. Sharp, PhD The following blog is an editorial found from the Am...

September 27, 2021

Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Pharmaceuticals

Statement of Support for the FDA

The Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access (CUPA), a project of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine D...

September 11, 2020

Clinical Trials & Studies, Ethics, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Informed Consent, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Public Health

My Experiences with Hydroxychloroquine Urge Caution and Ethical Research into COVID19 Ther...

by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. I take the drug hydroxychloroquine, brand name Plaquenil, for an autoimmune disease. Hydroxychloroq...

April 20, 2020

Clinical Trials & Studies, Global Ethics, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Reproductive Ethics, Research Ethics

Ethics Dumping and Medical Tourism In A Fertility Study in Mexico

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week, NPR reported on a new pre-publication article published in the journal Human Reproduc...

January 24, 2020

Clinical Trials & Studies, Ethics, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Science

Randomized Trials are Deeply Offensive

This post appears by special arrangement with the American Journal of Bioethics. by John D. Lantos, MD In this issue, Ma...

January 7, 2020

Environmental Ethics, Gender Disparities, Genetics, Global Ethics, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, In Memoriam, Justice, Neuroethics, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Privacy, Professionalism, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics, Science, Social Justice, Technology

Data of the dead participant: what’s the right thing to do?

by Marieke Bak, MSc, MA, PhD(c) When people die nowadays, they no longer leave behind only physical assets. Their estate...

September 24, 2019

Clinical Trials & Studies, Cultural, Global Ethics, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Informed Consent, Pediatrics, Science

Turning A Blind Eye: Research on Children Raises Ethical Concerns

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. After age 40, the risk of developing a cataract increases. By 75 years of age in the U.S.,half o...

August 6, 2019

Clinical Trials & Studies, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Research Ethics

Do Companies Have a Duty to Pursue Clinical Trials: Enbrel and the Suggestion of Alzheimer...

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In 1983, NBC broadcast an alien invasion limited series calledV. In one episode, as the U.S. dev...

June 7, 2019

Clinical Trials & Studies, Cultural, Global Ethics, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Stem Cells, Technology

Rise in Chinese Research Raises Call for Updated Human Subjects Protections

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Move over United States, China is the new research powerhouse. In the last few months, announcem...

February 12, 2019

Genetics, Global Ethics, Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Informed Consent, Pediatrics, Reproductive Ethics, Science

Birth of Twins from Embryo Editing Raise Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues

Updated November 28 at 8:30am EST by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The film GATTACA turned 20 years old this year. The premise of...

November 27, 2018

Clinical Trials & Studies, Conflict of Interest, Health Care, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Informed Consent

Sloan Kettering Controversies: Trust is the Public Foundation of Medical Research

by Ann Mongoven, PhD, MPH Recent controversies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center raise ethical questions about m...

October 1, 2018

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