The articles included in this month’s issue of Research Ethics Digest offer new discussion of challenging and controversial topics related to research ethics, including animal research reporting standards in China, a discussion of the side effects of analgesia in animal research, fairness in subject selection, the ethical challenges of doing research with human subjects in the wake of a disaster, analysis of Common Rule changes, and further topics.

Articles included:

• The Interplay of Ethics, Animal Welfare, and IACUC Oversight on the Reproducibility of Animal Studies
• Survey of Basic Medical Researchers on the Awareness of Animal Experimental Designs and Reporting Standards in China
• Side Effects of Pain and Analgesia in Animal Experimentation
• Improving Quality of Science Through Better Animal Welfare: The NC3Rs Strategy
• Promoting Adoption of the 3Rs Through Regulatory Qualification
• CTSA Institution Responses to Proposed Common Rule Changes: Did They Get What They Wanted?
• Immortal Life of the Common Rule: Ethics, Consent, and the Future of Cancer Research
• Review and Conduct of Human Subjects Research after a Natural or Man–Made Disaster: Findings from a Pilot Study
• Fair Subject Selection in Clinical Research: Formal Equality of Opportunity
• Limited Reproducibility of Research Findings: Implications for the Welfare of Research Participants and Considerations for Institutional Review Boards
• Informed Consent
• Research on Medical Practices (ROMP): Attitudes of IRB Personnel about Randomization and Informed Consent
• Perspectives of IRB Chairs on the Informed Consent Process
• Research Ethics Governance in Times of Ebola
• Ethics and Hepatitis B Cure Research
• Designing Research Funding Schemes to Promote Global Health Equity: An Exploration of Current Practice in Health Systems 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 Certified IRB Professional (CIP®) credential, Certified Professional in IACUC Administration (CPIA®) credential recertification, or other professional credentials they may hold.