Articles Tagged With: research
-
APIC Research Agenda Includes Race and HAIs
With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic exposing widespread inequities and deep-set systemic racism in healthcare, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is planning research to address some of these critical issues, including one proposal to design a study to determine if patients of color or non-white ethnicity are at greater risk of acquiring healthcare-associated infections.
-
Infectious Disease Experts Sound Alarm on True Toll of RSV
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is something of a contradiction: The leading cause of hospitalization of infants in the United States (58,000 annually) is largely unappreciated beyond the pediatric population. In what essentially is a hidden seasonal epidemic, RSV causes 177,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths annually in the United States in those age 65 years and older.
-
IRBs Facing Ethically Controversial Questions on Brain Research
The field of brain research sounds a lot like science fiction, but human neural organoids, human neural transplants, and human-animal chimeras all are imminent realities. IRBs are going to be facing some difficult decisions on whether this research can proceed. The authors of a recent report examined these issues.
-
Treatment, Research Centers Trying to Solve Long COVID-19
Lingering COVID-19 symptoms in many patients may be the last and most insidious wave of the pandemic, since people who have been infected experience a prolonged, sometimes changing array of ill effects. The concern is that a subset of these cases will develop a kind of chronic COVID-19 that becomes a lifelong condition.
-
IRB Approaches Research Participant Complaints Individually
Like many of its counterparts, the IRB at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) evaluates any complaint from a research participant on an individual, case-by-case basis. IRB Advisor spoke with Corinne Rogers, MS, CIP, NYSPI IRB director, to find out more about her research-related dispute procedures. -
White Adults, Women Overrepresented in U.S. Vaccine Trials
Investigators uncover reporting gaps, lack of proper representation for older adults, minority groups.
-
Coalition Calls for More Federal Investment in Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention
Groups ask Congress for additional money for research, innovation, surveillance, and stewardship.
-
U.K. Approves First COVID-19 Human Challenge Trial
Volunteers will be infected with virus so researchers can learn more about pathology, speed effective vaccine development.
-
Papers Detail Hazards of Surgical Smoke
Researchers provide more detailed definitions, offer possible solutions to minimize risk.
-
New Guidance Outlines Ethics of Embryo Research
According to the statement, human embryo research is ethically acceptable if it is “likely to provide significant new knowledge that may benefit human health, well-being of the offspring, or reproduction.”