Monday, October 8, 2007
Ethical Lapse
| Last March, the Harvard Medical School was cited for unethical procedures in their research field. Any institution receiving federal funding for research is required to use an IRB. The IRB demanded that eight of the 25 inspected experiments required more scrutiny. Three of the other experiments in question were flagged during the audit for using inappropriately technical language in their consent forms. The IRB also asked Harvard to put a more racially diverse group of reviewers on board because the majority of them were white males. Although, these infractions were minimal when compared to UPenn & Duke, where the National Insititue of Health actually had to freeze research. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=502637 |
posted by LaurenS at 6:40 AM
