In late June, after Mr. Grassley singled out Dr. Schatzberg, Stanford disputed some of the numbers in the report and has denied that Dr. Schatzberg violated any research rules devised to police such conflicts.
However, if the follow-up of the trial participants and late outcomes is an after-thought, data protection laws and other research rules may prevent it without first obtaining a new informed consent.
In this manuscript we report an evaluation of the reliability of clinical research rules creation by multiple clinicians using the Health Archetype Language (HAL-42) and user interface.
The U.S. government will soon be asking university officials to comment on how best to implement recently released dual use research rules at the university level, a senior U.S. science official announced today.
Children who participate in medical research need special protection from risky or unethical studies, a government advisory group said, and it urged that federal research rules be applied to all pediatric studies.
Under current U.S. research rules, samples taken in the course of a person's medical care may be used in research without the person's awareness or explicit consent if the information is recorded without identifying information.
Harvard and the National Institutes of Health are investigating whether Dr. Biederman violated federal and university research rules.
"It doesn't really stand up under research rules," says Roberts.
Mr. Grassley has also said that Dr. Biederman and Dr. Wilens might have violated federal and university research rules.
Moreover, there are no reported techniques for producing people (except for the time-honored one) and even if there were, European research rules ban human cloning.
