DOE Human Subjects Resources

In this issue:

• Bioethicist Art Caplan says IRB focus should be informed consent.
• Is it always coercive to offer incentives to research subjects?
• IRB scrutiny is "often unnecessary" for oral historians.
• Sandia Lab delegation in Russia for collaborative study.
• Does the complexity of consent hinder research?
• An ethical duty to participate in research.
• Social-behavioral research is not without risks.
• Genetic studies must consider risk to family, ethnic, and tribal groups.
• Questions about changes to the Declaration of Helsinki.
• Ambiguity is inherent to subject vulnerability

In this issue:

• Elizabeth White named new Human Subjects Protection Officer
• SACHRP recommendations: risk, consent & IRB models
• DOE's redesigned human subjects Web site
• Unique ethics compliance training tools
• Revised DOE order for protecting human subjects
• Bernard Schwetz on international research protections
• Disaster research & protecting human subjects
• Gigi McMillan on listening to children in research
  

In this issue:

• An IRB success story for LLNL
• Protecting subjects "to death"?
• Informed consent
• Conflicts of interest threaten trust
• How researchers view IRBs

In this issue:

• Human Subjects Risk in new nanotechnologies
• Use of information from the haplotype map ("HapMap")
• International research issues

In this issue:

• Relationships between IRBs and investigators
• Compliance vs. ethics
• Ethnography and consent
• Consent as an ongoing process

In this issue:

• Discussion on the various ways that can either assist or impede communication related to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and Human Subjects Protection Programs (HSPPs)
• Ideas designed to improve the way information, ideas, expectations, and assurances are relayed

In this issue:

• Focus on the Belmont Report: highlights of discussions held at the December 2003 Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) meeting