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The Patient Advocacy Council, a Alabama-based commercial institutional review board (IRB), is disputing an FDA warning letter accusing it of failing to protect "economically and educationally disadvantaged subjects" in clinical trials it oversaw. Read More
One-quarter of medical school IRBs have no written policy on potential conflicts of interest among members, and only one in five systematically collects information about members' potential conflicts of interest, according to a recent study.
IRBs are increasingly vulnerable to legal liability, and sponsoring institutions "should provide indemnification or insurance for IRB members to reduce their risks of financial loss," according to David Resnik, director of new programs for the Bioethics Center at University Health Systems of Eastern North Carolina.
More than one out of seven members of IRBs have reviewed at least one protocol in the previous year under circumstances that “could be considered conflicts of interest,” according to the results of a survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
While controversy surrounds potential conflicts of interest among institutional review board (IRB) members, no one knows who owns the boards themselves. Read More
More than one out of seven members of institutional review boards (IRBs) have reviewed at least one protocol in the previous year under circumstances that "could be considered conflicts of interest," according to the results of a survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More
More than one out of seven members of institutional review boards (IRBs) have approved at least one protocol in the previous year under circumstances that “could be considered conflicts of interest,” according to the results of a survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More
Research sites that choose to use outside institutional review boards (IRBs) should follow a number of steps to avoid legal liability, according to experts on a panel at the National Conference on Alternative IRB Models. Read More