Most Recent Articles from IRB: Ethics & Human Research

• Including persons with Alzheimer disease in research on comorbid conditions 

  Alzheimer disease is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that affects 4.5 million people in the United States, with the number expected to...

  01/01/09 by Anji Wall · More from publication

• Community hospital oversight of clinical investigators' financial relationships 

  In response to growing concerns over conflicts of interest in clinical research, considerable attention has been paid in recent years to clinical...

  01/01/09 by Mark A. Hall · More from publication

• IRB policies regarding finder's fees and role conflicts in recruiting research participants 

  Conflicts of interest may arise during the recruitment of research subjects in several ways. Financial conflicts of interest may arise when...

  01/01/09 by Leslie E. Wolf · More from publication

• Research ethics consultation: the Stanford experience 

  Although bioethicists and institutions have long provided ethics consultations on an individual basis, research ethics consultation is still a...

  11/01/08 by Mildred K. Cho · More from publication

• Oncology consent forms: failure to disclose off-site treatment availability 

  Many research studies investigate new uses of medications that are commercially available. (1) For example, cancer researchers often conduct...

  11/01/08 by David B. Resnik · More from publication

• The antidepressant debate and ethically defensible placebo-controlled trials 

  A basic tenet of biological psychiatry is that placebo-controlled, randomized drug trials under double blind have shown that antidepressants exert...

  11/01/08 by Duff R. Waring · More from publication

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