The articles included in this month's issue of Research Ethics Digest offer new information on challenging and controversial topics related to research ethics, including discussion of international research concerns around Ebola, tuberculosis, and genomics research; perspectives on pragmatic clinical trials and big data; roles and limitations of IRBs; human-chimera research; and further topics.
Articles included:
- Human–Animal Chimeras: Ethical Issues about Farming Chimeric Animals Bearing Human Organs
- The Ethics of Animal Research: A Survey of the Public and Scientists in North America
- Pedagogical Merit Review of Animal Use for Education in Canada
- Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare
- Ethical Considerations in Research Participation Virality
- Did I Tell You That? Ethical Issues Related to Using Computational Methods to Discover Non-Disclosed Patient Characteristics
- Developing a Framework for Evaluating Ethical Outcomes of Good Participatory Practices in TB Clinical Drug Trials
- Evidence of Broad-Based Family Support for the Use of Archival Childhood Tumour Samples in Future Research
- Cluster Randomized Trial Assessing the Effects of Rapid Ethical Assessment on Informed Consent Comprehension in a Low-Resource Setting
- The Ebola Clinical Trials: A Precedent for Research Ethics in Disasters
- Evolving Perspectives on Broad Consent for Genomics Research and Biobanking in Africa. Report of the Second H3Africa Ethics Consultation Meeting, 11 May 2015
- Do N-of-1 Trials Need IRB Review?
- IRB and Research Regulatory Delays Within the Military Health System: Do They Really Matter? And If So, Why and for Whom?
- The Importance of Virtue Ethics in the IRB
- Physicians' Perspectives Regarding Pragmatic Clinical Trials
- A Survey of Patient Perspectives on the Research Use of Health Information and Biospecimens
- A Systematic Literature Review of Individuals' Perspectives on Broad Consent and Data Sharing in the United States
- Ethical Issues and Practical Challenges in Suicide Research: Collaboration with Institutional Review Boards
- Prisoners as Research Participants: Current Practice and Attitudes in the UK
- The Limits of Empirical Data: How to Understand Survey Results with Respect to Gamete Donor Anonymity
The Research Ethics Digest Self-Study Program allows PRIM&R members to earn continuing education credits, which can be applied toward their Certified IRB Professional (CIP®) credential, Certified Professional in IACUC Administration (CPIA®) credential recertification, or other professional credentials they may hold.