The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing a proposed one-year delay for updates to the Common Rule that have been in limbo since the Trump administration took office. Changes to the Common Rule ...

The Common Rule, initially adopted in 1991, created an overarching guideline for federally funded human subjects research to provide oversight both in response to prior ethical transgressions and to ...

JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr., Sarah Arnold and Sarah Wetter of The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss premier takeaways from the recent amendments to ...

On January 18 th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and 15 other federal agencies issued a final rule updating regulations for the protection of human research subjects, the ...

On September 8, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and 15 other federal departments and agencies issued a proposal to revise the regulations governing the ethical conduct of ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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Please read the Op Ed, "Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission?," on tissue based research and the importance of informed consent in the context of the common rule. The author, who wrote a book ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The federal government has proposed changes to the Common Rule, a law designed to protect the privacy and well-being of people who participate in ...

In a final rule published on January 19, 2017, HHS and several federal departments and agencies made revisions to the Common Rule, the federal policy for the protection of human subjects applicable to ...

The federal regulations for the protection of human subjects (Common Rule) were revised effective January 20, 2019 to reduce administrative burdens for low-risk research while enhancing protections ...

The April 10, 2017, article by Smith et al entitled “Immortal Life of the Common Rule: Ethics, Consent, and the Future of Cancer Research” (J Clin Oncol 35:1879 ...