In an effort to foster progress in cancer research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is releasing ...

Sexting – the creating and exchanging of sexual texts, photos and videos – has become part of many people’s sexual and ...

The University IRB applies all Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requirements for informed consent to greater than minimal risk research: DHHS general requirements (at 45 CFR 46.116) (see ...

Informed consent (IC) is a fundamental aspect of ethical clinical research, safeguarding the rights and well-being of participants. It empowers participants with comprehensive information about the ...

The Forms and Templates page includes templates for informed consent documents.. However, because each human participants research (HSR) proposal is different and carries unique risks to participants, ...

To improve this process, the draft guidance addressed how best to present key information in research consent forms and includes FDA’s and OHRP’s recommendations for the content, organization ...

Additional elements of informed consent will be required. For an updated list of elements, see the Revised Elements of Informed Consent.. Note that the general elements of informed consent now include ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration other agencies, recently published draft guidance (Guidance) on effectively presenting key information regarding informed consent in ...

Acute care research is sometimes conducted under Exception from Informed Consent regulations. In many life-threatening illnesses, patients are unconscious or too sick to provide written or verbal ...

Shirley Lacks, daughter-in-law of Henrietta Lacks, speaks on a panel with her nephew David Lacks, Jr., at The Global Health Symposium San Antonio Botanical at the Garden's Betty Kelso Center in ...

Mount Sinai, a leading hospital network in New York, mounted a behind-the-scenes campaign to blunt the fallout over revelations about its brain research study, STAT has learned.