DOE Human Subjects Resources
DOE Protecting Human Research Subjects Newsletter
The newsletter addresses current issues and concerns about human research supported by DOE. It focuses on DOE laboratories and specific issues DOE laboratories face while conducting human subject research at their facilities. The newsletter often refers the reader to materials or informational contacts that may provide further guidance on human subjects research. The newsletter also announces upcoming meetings and other events that cover human research topics.
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Issue 16, August 2008
- 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
Issue 15, November 2007
- 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
Fall 2006
![Front page of fall 2006 newsletter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090113012048im_/http://humansubjects.energy.gov/images/doe-resources/fall06-lg.gif)
- An IRB success story for LLNL
- Protecting subjects "to death"?
- Informed consent
- Conflicts of interest threaten trust
- How researchers view IRBs
Spring 2006
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- Human Subjects Risk in new nanotechnologies
- Use of information from the haplotype map ("HapMap")
- International research issues
Summer 2005
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- Relationships between IRBs and investigators
- Compliance vs. ethics
- Ethnography and consent
- Consent as an ongoing process
Fall 2004
![Front page of fall 04 newsletter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090113012048im_/http://humansubjects.energy.gov/images/doe-resources/fall04nsltr.gif)
- 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
Summer 2004
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- Focus on the Belmont Report: highlights of discussions held at the December 2003 Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) meeting
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Content reviewed: Nov. 29, 2007