The Common Rule, initially adopted in 1991, created an overarching guideline for federally funded human subjects research to provide oversight both in response to prior ethical transgressions and to ...

On September 8, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and 15 other federal departments and agencies issued a proposal to revise the regulations governing the ethical conduct of ...

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 ...

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 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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 ...

Researchers recommend changing the U.S. federal regulations that govern oversight of human subjects research ("the Common Rule") to address continued underrepresentation of minorities in research ...

The Final Rule requires the Common Rule Agencies to periodically consult with experts and assess the research landscape with respect to (1) the meaning of identifiability in the Common Rule context ...

The Common Rule describes the basic DHHS policy for the protection of human research participants and is incorporated into University policy for: IRB review types and processes; criteria for IRB ...