Human subject research in the United States

AAHRPP Accredits Three More Research Organizations, Including First in Australia and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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The newly accredited organizations are:

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  • The newly accredited organizations are:
    Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Department of Research Programs, Bethesda, Maryland
    "These accreditations represent milestones for AAHRPP and research participants worldwide," AAHRPP President and CEO Elyse I. Summers said.
  • And, we're proud that AAHRPP accreditation has been achieved by the United States' largest, most renowned military medical center, named for the physician researcher who used written consent (including translated forms in Spanish), decades before it was typical.
  • A national nonprofit organization, Bellberry Limited manages 12 human research ethics committees that provide scientific, ethical review of human research projects across Australia.
  • The Department of Research Programs oversees all Walter Reed National Military Medical Center research.

New Paper Suggests Human Research Protections for Animals, Says Senior Author Dr. Hope Ferdowsian

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Monday, October 7, 2019
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The paper's authors hail from the fields of medicine, research, the humanities, applied ethics, and philosophy.

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  • The paper's authors hail from the fields of medicine, research, the humanities, applied ethics, and philosophy.
  • "Forty years ago, following public outrage about unethical practices in human research, the U.S. Congress established the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
  • Within several years, the Commission published the Belmont Report, which radically changed the treatment of adults and children involved in medical research," said internal medicine, preventive medicine, and public health physician Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, the paper's senior author.
  • "Although there are still ethical problems that need to be addressed within human research, current human research protections aim to shield people who participate in research from serious abuses.

From Universal Pictures Home Entertainment: Three Identical Strangers

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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Experience the stranger-than-fiction phenomenon of three men in search for truth and justice in the unbelievable documentary, Three Identical Strangers, arriving on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and the all-new digital movie app MOVIES ANYWHERE on October 2, 2018 from NEON and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

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  • UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Experience the stranger-than-fiction phenomenon of three men in search for truth and justice in the unbelievable documentary, Three Identical Strangers, arriving on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and the all-new digital movie app MOVIES ANYWHERE on October 2, 2018 from NEON and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
  • Winner of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for Best Documentary Storytelling, Three Identical Strangers tells the astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of 19 that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents.
  • Three Identical Strangers will be available on Blu-ray,DVD and Digital.
  • DVD offers the flexibility and convenience of playing movies in more places, both at home and away.