Regional Boards Would Replace IRBs Under NIH Bioethics Proposal
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A proposal to dramatically restructure the nation's current human research subjects protection system by extending federal regulations to all human research and replacing local institutional review boards with regional ethics boards (REBs) is being circulated at NIH by the Department of Clinical Bioethics
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