How Much Should a Research Participant Know?
Research involves performing tests on animal subjects and sometimes even on human subjects. However, there are times researchers do not follow the ethical practices associated with…
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What You Need to Know About the New Core Practices of COPE
COPE’s guidelines have always been voluntary best practices instead of enforceable standards. This fact is emphasized again with the release of the new Core Practices. Although the…
Animal Studies: Important Ethical Considerations You Need to Know
Animal research has been conducted for a very long time. One of the key arguments for animal testing is the fact that we can generate data that will be useful for treating disease…
A Quick Guide to Clinical Trials (Part 3: Ethical Requirements)
Medical advancements save lives. However, new procedures, tools, and products require thorough testing to ensure they are at least as safe and effective as the current standard of…
A Quick Guide to Clinical Trials (Part 2: The Process)
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the different types of clinical trials and the phases of clinical trial studies. In this article, we look at the process of registering and…
A Quick Guide to Clinical Trials (Part 1: An Overview)
Clinical trials are the core of medical research. Investigations are performed to determine how new treatments will work in human patients and valuable data concerning the benefits…
Impact of GPP3 Guidelines on Industry-sponsored Research
Clinical trials help doctors to decide the best treatment for their patients. This means that the results must be accurate and reliable. Often commercial organizations such as…
Importance of Ethics Committees in Scholarly Research
Ethics committees review research proposals involving human participants and their data to ensure that they agree with local and international ethical guidelines. They also monitor…
Importance of Research Ethics
There are multiple reasons why it is necessary to adhere to the basic norms of scientific conduct during academic research. The credibility of the scientific community and the…
How to Avoid Ethical Issues in Your Research
Too many scientific reputations have been damaged by charges of unethical behavior. Although we all think of ourselves as applying the highest standards of ethics, avoiding ethical…
Are We Facing a Research Integrity Crisis?
Our dependence on research integrity in science is more critical than many are willing to acknowledge. The purity of the scientific method is presented as an uncompromising and…
Merits of the Belmont Report
What is the Belmont Report?
In July 1974, the National Research Act was signed into law, creating the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and…