On January 18 th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and 15 other federal agencies issued a final rule updating regulations for the protection of human research subjects, the ...

On September 2, 2015, sixteen federal agencies and departments jointly issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“the NPRM”), designed to “modernize, strengthen, and make more effective” the so-called ...

Please read the Op Ed, "Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission?," on tissue based research and the importance of informed consent in the context of the common rule. The author, who wrote a book ...

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JURIST Guest Columnists James G. Hodge, Jr., Sarah Arnold and Sarah Wetter of The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss premier takeaways from the recent amendments to ...

The federal regulations for the protection of human subjects (Common Rule) were revised effective January 20, 2019 to reduce administrative burdens for low-risk research while enhancing protections ...

The federal government on Wednesday issued a new 543-page rule to govern the way researchers study human subjects. The new "common rule," as it is known, follows years of debate over appropriate ...

The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects or the “Common Rule” outlines specific regulations for human subjects research. The Common Rule is heavily based on the "The Belmont Report," ...