This month's issue of Research Ethics Digest includes thought-provoking articles on topics including the challenges of conducting research with biospecimens from children and ethical issues in adolescent research.
Articles included:
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Considerations Regarding the Use of Virus-Induced Carcinogenesis and Oncolytic Viral Models
- The Ethics of Infection Challenges in Primates
- SEARCHBreast: A New Resource to Locate and Share Surplus Archival Material from Breast Cancer Animal Models to Help Address the 3Rs
- A Training Course on Laboratory Animal Science: An Initiative to Implement the Three Rs of Animal Research in India
- Ethics Issues Arising in the Transition to Learning Health Care Systems: Results from Interviews with Leaders from 25 Health Systems
- Research Led by Participants: A New Social Contract for a New Kind of Research
- Towards a Bioethics of Innovation
- Recently Proposed Changes to Legal and Ethical Guidelines Governing Human Subjects Research
- Reproducible Research Practices and Transparency Across the Biomedical Literature
- Retooling Institutional Support Infrastructure for Clinical Research
- Synergies, Tensions and Challenges in HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Cure Research: Exploratory Conversations with HIV Experts in South Africa
- What Do International Ethics Guidelines Say in Terms of the Scope of Medical Research Ethics?
- Ethics Review for International Data-Intensive Research
- Reaching Out to Ebola Victims: Coercion, Persuasion or an Appeal for Self-Sacrifice?
- A Case-Study of the Resources and Functioning of Two Research Ethics Committees in Western India
- The Influence of Age, Health Literacy, and Affluence on Adolescents’ Capacity to Consent to Research
- Paper Trails, Trailing Behind: Improving Informed Consent to IVF through Multimedia Applications
- The Patient's Perspective on the Need for Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Studies: Development of a Survey-Based Measure
- Alternative Consent Models for Comparative Effectiveness Studies: Views of Patients from Two Institutions
- Patients' Views Concerning Research on Medical Practices: Implications for Consent
- When Children Become Adults: Should Biobanks Re-Contact?
- 23andMe: A New Two-Sided Data-Banking Market Model
- Evidence of Broad-Based Family Support for the Use of Archival Childhood Tumour Samples in Future Research
- Developing Guidance for Pregnancy Testing of Adolescents Participating in Research: Ethical, Legal, and Practical Considerations
- The Ethics of Community-Based Research with People Who Use Drugs: Results of a Scoping Review
- Patient and Physician Views About Protocolized Dialysis Treatment in Randomized Trials and Clinical Care
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.