To approve research, federal regulations require the IRB to determine, when appropriate, that there are adequate provisions to protect the privacy of participants and to maintain the confidentiality ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama yesterday ordered a vast review to ensure that those who take part in U.S.-backed research are treated ethically, a response to the revelation that American ...

One of the most important phases of the Systematic Inquiry Cycle, and of your research work involves Protecting Participants’ Rights. If your study involves human subjects, your proposed research will ...

Purdue’s Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) team is on a mission to streamline the regulatory journeys of researchers across the university. An integral part of the Office of Research’s ...

The United States’ system for protecting human research subjects is “dysfunctional” and needs some significant changes, said the new director of the main federal agency responsible for protecting them ...

A benefit is a valued or desired outcome, or an advantage. In research, benefits generally fall into two categories: benefits to the individual participants in the research and benefits to science or ...