A leading bioethicist at Hiroshima University is calling for an anticipatory, rather than reactive, approach to ethics after ...

Neuroscience experts convened in Asilomar to talk through guidelines around ethical research on human neural organoids.

Many people with dementia are interested in taking part in research, including when they no longer have capacity to provide informed consent. Advance research directives (ARD) enable people to ...

Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

IRB: Ethics & Human Research explores issues in research with human subjects, including findings and analyses of empirical studies. Six issues are published each year, containing scholarly articles ...

Ethicist Art Caplan discusses FDA layoffs and their impact on protection of human research subjects in clinical trials.

Human challenge trials to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates against SARS?CoV?2, the novel coronavirus behind Covid?19, could save considerable time and many lives. But they may initially seem ...

The REB complies with the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR 46.103). These regulations state that every institution engaged in human subject ...

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: An International Journal, Vol. 13, No. 5 (December 2018), pp. 511-524 (14 pages) African American women living with HIV were asked to reflect on ...

There are long-established guidelines proscribing the publication of articles based on scientific experiments or trials that fail to protect the rights of human research subjects. But, as an article ...

If all researchers were required to serve time on an ethics committee, not only would the system look entirely different, human research subjects might get greater protection.