All University and affiliate personnel involved in the conduct and oversight of human research must abide by the fundamental principles set forth in the Belmont Report. The Belmont Report, published ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Journals, media outlets, and government departments should demand proof of ethics approval before publishing or promoting ...

Welcome to CU Boulder's Institutional Review Board (IRB) website. Here, you will find everything you need to submit a human subjects research study for ethical review.

Celerion has achieved of a full AAHRPP (Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs) reaccreditation for five years.

Many biomedical and social-behavioral research studies require the participation of human volunteers. These studies must be reviewed by a committee called an Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB ...

Medical milestones broadcast via tweet. Scientific progress revealed via live YouTube demo. Teasers for updates followed by a livestream from a patient’s home. These aren’t the latest social media ...

Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly introduced a regulation that may be one of the most important shifts in how non-profit and for-profit U.S. institutions, both at ...

The authors also observed that trust and satisfaction strongly correlated with perceived consent validity. When respondents ...

Volunteers were infected with the COVID virus in order to ascertain whether there were cognitive effects of infection. It represented the failure of safeguards against unethical experiments. The ...