ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION* (AHRP) April 10, 2000 Gary Ellis, Ph.D, Director Michael A. Carome, M.D. Chief Compliance Oversight Branch Division of Human Subject Protections Office of Protection from Research Risks Rockville, MD 20892-7507 Re: High Risk Experiment With Children Who Have No Medical Diagnosis Dear Dr. Ellis &…
AHRP Initiatives Campaign for the Protection of Vulnerable Individuals September 13, 2002: National Disability Rights Activists Oppose Cal. AB2328 September 5, 2002: Do the Ends Justify the Means in Human Research? September 4, 2002: AHRP Replies to OHRP Response re Surrogate Consent (ARDS Study). August 28, 2002: OHRP Response…
MEMORANDUM Date: June 10, 2002 From: THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION Re: Opposition to AB 2328 To: Members of the California Health and Human Services Committee and Staff: Senator Deborah Ortiz (Chair), Mr. John Miller Senator Ray Haynes (Vice Chair), Ms. Debbie Rogers Senator Jim Battin, Ms. Katie Tinney…
ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH (AHRP) 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 Advance Directive Re: Research You Have a Right to Say "Yes" or "No" For your protection, AHRP recommends: Prepare an "Advance Directive" before you enter a hospital, in the event that you become incapacitated or mentally incapable of making informed, reasoned and…
Human Pesticide Experiments “Allowing human experiments, such as those conducted recently in the United Kingdom, to serve as the basis for registering pesticides, is ethically indefensible.” Ken Cook, President Environmental Working Group January 8, 2003 "Should the EPA Accept Human Pesticide Experiments?", testimony by Vera Hassner Sharav before the Committee…
Investigative Press Reports Aug. 7, 2002: Los Angeles Times. UC Seeks to Ease Curbs on Patient Research, by Charles Ornstein and Rebecca Trounson http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-uc7aug07.story?coll=la%2Dhealth%2Dmedicine SPECIAL REPORT : Experiments on Humans, San Francisco Chronicle August 4, 2002: Business of clinical trials soars, but risks unknown Medical studies give new hope to…
Government Investigations 1990 to August 2001 National Bioethics Advisory Committee Report: ETHICAL AND POLICY ISSUES IN RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS, 1998 Exhibit 3.1: Office of Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) Compliance Oversight Investigations Resulting in Restrictions/Actions to Institutions that have Multiple Project Asssurances (MPA) between January 1990 – June 2000…
FOIA: OHRP Investigation – Brigham and Women’s Hospital Letter page one: Letter page 2: Letter page 3:
ETHICAL AND POLICY ISSUES IN RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS National Bioethics Advisory Commitee (NBAC) Final Report, 2001 Exhibit 3.1: Office of Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) Compliance Oversight Investigations Resulting in Restrictions/Actions to Institutions that have Multiple Project Assurances (MPA) between January 1990 – June 2000 Year, Institution and Action…
Bioethics Debate: Ethics of U Penn Surgical “Drug Implant” Experiment This debate between AHRP President, Vera Sharav and Bioethicist, Paul Root Volpe, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, was prompted by an October 7 infomail. The reasons for AHRP’s opposition to drug implants for psychiatric patients are explained here: https://ahrp.org/ahrpspeaks/drugimplant1103.php —–Original Message—–…
Dr. Wolpe’s Accusations and Dr. Healy’s Response —–Original Message—– From: Paul Root Wolpe Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:30 PM To: VERACARE Subject: Re: Ethics of U Penn surgical “drug implant” experiment Vera, We will have to agree to disagree, so this will be my last email on this. A…
Analysis of 94 OHRP Letters of Determination, July 1, 2000 to January 31, 2001 Research Compliance Note. Thomas Dalglish, JD, PhD * The views expressed in the ‘Research Compliance Note’ below are the personal opinions of the author, do not reflect any official position of the University of Washington, and…
