human subjects protection

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today issued its report concerning federally-sponsored research involving human volunteers, concluding that current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk. In its report, “Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research," the Commission also recommended 14 changes to current practices to better protect research subjects, and called on the federal government to improve its tracking of research programs supported with taxpayer dollars.

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Commissioner Christine Grady and staff give presentations at PRIM&R

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Agenda for Meeting Seven: November 16-17, 2011, in Boston, MA

New Research Building at Harvard Medical School, The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115

Wednesday, November 16 – Meeting in the Rotunda Conference Room

9:30 – 9:45 a.m. - Welcome and Opening Remarks

Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.

Commission Chair

James Wagner, Ph.D.

Commission Vice-Chair

9:45 – 10:30 a.m. - Session 1: Human Research Protections as Professional Standards

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TRANSCRIPT: Meeting Six, Welcome and Opening Remarks

DR. GUTMANN: Good afternoon, everybody. I'm

Amy Gutmann, and I'm President of the University of

Pennsylvania, and Chair of the Presidential Commission

for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

On behalf of our Vice Chair Jim Wagner, who's

President of Emory University, and myself, I welcome

everyone to this, our Sixth Meeting of the Commission.

It is -- before we continue, let me note the

presence of our designated federal official, Commission

Date

Mon, 08/29/2011

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President’s Bioethics Commission Releases Results of its Historical Investigation of the 1940s U.S. Public Health Service STD Studies in Guatemala

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TRANSCRIPT: Meeting 5, Session 5

DR. GUTMANN: We are going to make a seamless segue into a panel discussion so I'd ask everybody who has presented to come on up and I think we'll add perhaps a few seats to the table.
First of all, thank you all for joining us, and it’s a great privilege for us to have you here to share your wisdom with us on a set of very thorny and important issues. So, we’ve made a practice of this, and you’ve got to trust us, it works, even though it’s going to impose a discipline on you.