Articles Tagged With: IRB
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Q&A Part 2: How IRB Leaders Helped Staff, Board Members Cope with Uncertainty
Communication, stress, and anxiety were top concerns for IRB leaders and staff during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New Working Group to Produce Guidance for Pediatric Gene Therapy
The NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s working group on Pediatric Gene Therapy and Medical Ethics formed in the fall of 2019 to address and propose recommendations to issues involving gene-based therapies in pediatric populations, including research activities.
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IRB’s Re-Engineered Program Makes It More Responsive
The revised Common Rule requires IRBs and research institutions to become more efficient and attentive. It also makes clear that an IRB cannot do all things for all stakeholders. The University of Texas Health San Antonio created a human research protection program office to handle institutional components of research protection work.
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IRB solutions for the age of health system growth
North Shore-LIJ Health System decided in July 2014 to restructure the local IRB into a flexible IRB model, and use videoconferencing instead of the typical board meetings in person.
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Special Feature: Three Current Controversies in Mechanical Ventilation
The literature on the technical and clinical aspects of mechanical ventilation for patients with acute respiratory failure continues to expand, with nearly 50,000 citations appearing in PubMed for the topic "mechanical ventilation," and more than a thousand articles in English reporting the results of clinical trials under this heading published during the last 5 years.