TAG ARCHIVES FOR NEJM

10
Jun2013

by Elisa Hurley, PRIM&R Education Director

Since our post last Thursday, there have been some additional, noteworthy developments around the SUPPORT trial and the Office for Human Research Protections’ (OHRPs’) latest actions that we thought were worth sharing. One day after the publication of OHRP’s letter stating it was putting on hold all compliance actions against the lead SUPPORT site, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) posted a letter to the editor, signed by nearly 50 prominent bioethicists, calling for OHRP to retract [...] Read more

23
Nov2011

by Elisa Hurley, PhD


Last  week, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues held its seventh public meeting in Boston. This was the final meeting devoted to President Obama’s charge to assess how well current regulations protect human subjects in research. The President’s instruction came in response to the revelation last year that from 1946 to 1948 the US Public Health [...] Read more