The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule, Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations, which allows an exception from the requirement to...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a proposed rule that would extensively modify and modernize its current regulations governing the protection of human subjects and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).1 If...more
On January 19, 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and fifteen other Federal departments and agencies published a final rule that extensively revises and modernizes the Federal Policy for the Protection of...more