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An inside look at how a university tries to protect human subjects. Federal scrutiny has led Duke to ease the huge workloads burdening its review boards.
This article talks about how universities' Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are overworked, and often times unable to properly evaluate and supervise experiments involving human test subjects. The Chronicle observed and document how Duke university evaluates it's IRB experiment proposals.
Tags: IRB; institutional review board; education; colleges; universities; human test subjects; Duke; professors; school; higher education
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Uninformed Consent: What patients at "The Hutch' weren't told about the experiments in which they died.
"PATIENTS DIED PREMATURELY in two failed clinical trials at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center-- experiments in which the Center and its doctors had a financial interest. The patients and their families were never told about those connections, nor were they fully and properly informed about the risks of the experiments ... The patients in these trials were ill with cancers that, left untreated, would almost certainly have killed them. But many stood a good chance of survival or at least prolonged life with traditional care. Instead, many actually died from the experiments --sooner than they would have with no treatment at all."
Tags: conflict of interest; T- cells; bone marrow transplants; clinical trial; disclosure; biotechnology; breast cancer; IRB; Institutional Review Board; chemotherapy; stem-cell transplant; Pentoxifylline; PTX; nonprofit; hospital
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Don't Talk to the Humans: The Crackdown on Social Science Research
Lingua Franca investigates a problem spreading across universities across the country: "the unwarranted and intrusive policing of social science research by human-subject committees." Christopher Shea outlines the problems social scientists have getting their research proposals passed by university review boards. Historians, anthropologists, even journalists are required to present their proposals to these review boards. These review boards were originally set up to prevent researchers from performing disturbing experiments like Stanley Milgram's famous "fatal shock" experiment in the mid-1970s. However, Shea points out, the concerns of the review boards often do not make sense in the context of historical or media research.
Tags: research; social sciences; institutional review boards; IRBs; human-subject
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Insight magazine examines the allegations against the Independent Review Board which has been accused of ignoring Teamsters president Ron Carey's reputed links to the mob. Some of the reasons given for this are that the investigators and others do not want James Hoffa, Jr-son of ex-teamsters boss, Jimmy Hoffa-to get the job. Law enforcement officers and union dissidents accuse the IRB and the government of being reluctant to investigate Carey. the younger Hoffa is a union lawyer in Detroit. Nov. 21, 1994. KEYWORD] Seper Labor Mob IRB Teamsters Unions 4 pages
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