The authors of this article explored research misconduct in low and middle income countries (LMICs). They expressed grievances towards the scarcity of literature published on …
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The SUPPORT Study
During the 1940s, an alarming increase in the rate of blindness in premature infants was linked to the high oxygen saturation rates, used in the …
Opinion: Ethics Training in Science
Jim Hicks, a comparative and evolutionary physiologist, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and the Research Integrity Officer (RIO) at UC Irvine, wrote an interesting opinion …
Bioethics in Popular Science: Evaluating the Media Impact of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on the Biobank Debate
In recent years, biobanks for human tissue sampling have become an emerging and fast-growing industry. Nowadays, an estimate of $1 billion is spent on biobanks …
Dissemination of Research Findings to Research Participants Living with HIV in Rural Uganda: Challenges and Rewards
This is a qualitative research aiming at disseminating findings of research conducted on participants treated for HIV in Uganda and describing the rewards and challenges …
How US Institutional Review Boards Decide When Researchers Need to Translate Studies
Obtaining an informed consent forms (ICF) poses several challenges such as language barriers, if the research participants are non-English speaker, which would require translating the …