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By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. Much attention has been paid to the government shutdown that started last week. Many of us heard heart-tugging stories on public radio about the NIH closing down new subject enrollment…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. The Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) has issued revised guidance about research subject compensation. And, although it has not attracted a great deal of fanfare, it deserves attention because…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. Earlier this month, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recommended that researchers should be trusted with the ability to decide whether individual studies involving human subjects should be exempt…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. The principle of justice articulated in The Belmont Report requires equitable selection of human research subjects. Equitable in this context means that the risks and benefits of the study are…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. For some time, animal rights activists in the US and abroad have been trying to pressure commercial airlines out of their long-standing practice of transporting research animals. Last week, a…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. While attending the annual Advancing Ethical Research Conference of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) last month in San Diego, I had the opportunity to hear a talk by…
By Suzanne M. Rivera How to Survive a Plague is a moving chronicle of the onset of the AIDS epidemic as seen through the lens of the activists who mobilized to identify and make available…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. In regulatory and research ethics circles, it is fairly common to hear people say they prefer the term “research participant” to “research subject” because they feel it’s more respectful. They…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. For years, mainstream and extremist organizations have waged campaigns against the use of animals. While PETA successfully deploys propaganda featuring provocative models in sexually explicit positions to denounce the use…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. I was giving a workshop presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council of University Research Administrators and my co-presenter raised an interesting idea. Tommy Coggins of the University…
