Dan WalterRelated Posts WebinarsBelow is a full list of recent webinars hosted by The Hastings Center: In Science We Trust? Can AI Promote Our Health & Well-Being? Can AI Improve Healthcare for Everyone?...Read WebinarsBioethics Forum EssayFear of Doing Too Much Too Soon or Too Little Too Late: Research on Covid-19The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly affected the practice of clinical research. Researchers and IRBs have felt an urgency to respond more quickly than usual, aware that lives are at stake.Read Fear of Doing Too Much Too Soon or Too Little Too Late: Research on Covid-19 The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though...Read The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline Hastings Conversations: Our SeriesIn 2020, The Hastings Center produced two Hastings Conversations series, Reopening the Nation, in response to the Covid-19 epidemic, and Securing Health in a Troubled Time, in response to racial...Read Hastings Conversations: Our SeriesBioethics Forum EssayTribute to Robert M. Veatch: Human Rights and Other CommitmentsRobert M. Veatch, a bioethics pioneer and the first research associate at The Hastings Center, died on November 9. An overarching theme was his commitment to human rights.Read Tribute to Robert M. Veatch: Human Rights and Other CommitmentsBioethics Forum EssayShould We Get Ready for Prime Time?For the first few years after my husband Howard died, I talked to him often. These were not ghostly, paranormal encounters; I was just thinking out loud about my life...Read Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?IRB: Ethics & Human ResearchExempting All Minimal-Risk Research from IRB Review: Pruning or Poisoning the Regulatory Tree?In a commentary published in 2009 inNaturemagazine, Kim and colleagues1argued that the federal regulations governing research with humans (known as the Common Rule2) should be changed to exempt minimal-risk research...Read Exempting All Minimal-Risk Research from IRB Review: Pruning or Poisoning the Regulatory Tree?IRB: Ethics & Human ResearchMoney, Coercion, and Undue Inducement: Attitudes about Payments to Research ParticipantsResearchers nearly always offer money to healthy individuals—and increasingly to individuals who are ill—as an incentive to enroll in research studies and as compensation for research participation.1Yet there is a...Read Money, Coercion, and Undue Inducement: Attitudes about Payments to Research ParticipantsIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchOHRP Compliance Oversight Letters: An UpdateIn this article, we describe our review of 235 compliance oversight determination letters that the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) issued to 146 institutions between August 1, 2002, and...Read OHRP Compliance Oversight Letters: An Update