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Research Ethics Digest: 2015-04

This month’s issue of Research Ethics Digest includes articles on some of the most controversial and challenging topics relevant to research ethics, including the politics of animal research; the ethics of sham interventions; ethical and regulatory issues related to pragmatic clinical trials; and much more.

Articles included:
  • Knowledge of the Animal Welfare Act and Animal Welfare Regulations Influences Attitudes Toward Animal Research
  • New Era for Chimpanzee Research: Broad Implications of Chimpanzee Research Decisions
  • Recommendations Concerning the New US National Institutes of Health Initiative to Balance the Sex of Cells and Animals in Preclinical Research
  • Reforming the Politics of Animal Research
  • The National Institutes of Health and Guidance for Reporting Preclinical Research
  • Are Outcome-Adaptive Allocation Trials Ethical?
  • Ethical and Regulatory Issues of Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trials in Contemporary Health Systems
  • Randomized Controlled Trials in Environmental Health Research: Unethical or Underutilized?
  • Reconsidering the Ethics of Sham Interventions in an Era of Emerging Technologies
  • Revealing the Results of Whole-Genome Sequencing and Whole-Exome Sequencing in Research and Clinical Investigations: Some Ethical Issues
  • Balancing Ethical Goals in Challenging Individual Participant Scenarios Occurring in a Trial Conducted with Exception from Informed Consent
  • Evaluating the Consent Preferences of UK Research Volunteers for Genetic and Clinical Studies
  • Informed Consent for HIV Cure Research in South Africa: Issues to Consider
  • Measuring Voluntariness of Consent to Research: An Instrument Review
  • "Targeted" Consent for Pragmatic Clinical Trials
  • Defining the Research Category in Pediatric Phase I Oncology Trials
  • Genetic Research on Biospecimens Poses Minimal Risk
  • Lapse in Institutional Review Board Continuing Review
  • Perceptions and Experiences of Community Members Serving on Institutional Review Boards: A Questionnaire Based Study
  • The Views of Quality Improvement Professionals and Comparative Effectiveness Researchers on Ethics, IRBs, and Oversight
  • Deception of Children in Research
  • Exploitation and Community Engagement: Can Community Advisory Boards Successfully Assume a Role Minimising Exploitation in International Research?
  • Innovations in Research Ethics Governance in Humanitarian Settings
  • The Vulnerability of Immigrants in Research: Enhancing Protocol Development and Ethics Review
"You Can't Be Cold and Scientific": Community Views on Ethical Issues in Intellectual Disability Research
PRIM&R’s Research Ethics Digest, an electronic publication, delivers timely and relevant abstracts and full-text articles from a wide array of scholarly journals to the inboxes of PRIM&R members every two months. Articles featured in Research Ethics Digest highlight new research and scholarship related to ethics and regulation that affect—and potentially enhance—daily work.

The Research Ethics Digest Self-Study Program allows PRIM&R members to earn continuing education credits, which can be applied toward their CertifiedIRB Professional (CIP®) credential, CertifiedProfessional in IACUC Administration (CPIA®) credential recertification, or other professional credentials they may hold.