This month's issue of Research Ethics Digest includes thought-provoking articles on topics including new research on informed consent, emerging biospecimen research issues, and ethical issues in neural device research.

Articles included:

• Participants' Understanding of Informed Consent in a Randomized Controlled Trial for Chronic Knee Pain
• Doctors, Patients, and Nudging in the Clinical Context—Four Views on Nudging and Informed Consent
• Readability and Understanding of Informed Consent Among Participants With Low Incomes: A Preliminary Report
• In the Name of Population Well-Being: The Case for Public Health Surveillance
• Assessing Veterinary and Animal Science Students' Moral Judgment Development on Animal Ethics Issues
• Laboratory Animal Research Published in Plastic Surgery Journals in 2014 Has Extensive Waste: A Systematic Review
• Why Bother Using Non-human Primate Models of Cognitive Disorders in Translational Research?
• Recontact and Recruitment of Young Adults Previously Enrolled in Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Research
• Protocol for the Development of a CONSORT-equity Guideline to Improve Reporting of Health Equity in Randomized Trials
• When the Science Fails and the Ethics Works: 'Fail-safe' Ethics in the FEM-PrEP Study
• Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices
• Unproven Stem Cell–based Interventions and Achieving a Compromise Policy Among the Multiple Stakeholders
• Investigator Experiences and Attitudes About Research With Biospecimens
• Ethical and Regulatory Issues with Residual Newborn Screening Dried Bloodspots
• Phasing Out Voluntary Donation in Clinical Trials: The Ethics of Mandating Biospecimen Collection
• Why Should Ethics Approval Be Required Prior to Publication of Health Promotion Research?
• Post-trial Obligations in the Declaration of Helsinki 2013: Classification, Reconstruction and Interpretation
• Opening Clinical Trial Data: Are the Voluntary Data-sharing Portals Enough?
• Providing Ethical Guidance for Collaborative Research in Developing Countries

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.