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Health Research: The Path to Knowledge
Health Research: The Path to Knowledge
Pages 55-66
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psychological consequences, as well Restrictions on the use of federal funds for stem as the increased possibility of ovarian cell research have led this research to be private cancer. ly funded and often carried out under a patchwork of existing regulations that were not developed with stem cells in mind.
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The advisory committee continues to gather information from public symposia and written comments from members of the scientific community on developments in stem cell science and new or changing is sues in ethics and policy. The committee uses these and other sources of information to continue monitoring and revising guidelines on the conduct of human embryonic stem cell research.
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, synthesized the current state of knowledge in the field. The workshop and its report focused on the scientific and medical data about the potential risks of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, compromised future fertility, and psychological consequences, as well as the increased possibility of ovarian cancer.
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. Given these issues, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections commissioned the IOM to review the ethical considerations regarding research involving prisoners.
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examine the hard data elements that have been at the core of the debate, and to comment on the issues involved in enforcing compliance and implementing a national clinical trial registry. The results were published in Developing a National Registry of Pharmacologic and Biologic Clinical Trials: Workshop Report (2006)
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However, concerns have been raised about the transmission of sensi tive personal information, and a Privacy Rule was adopted in 2003 to protect indi vidual health information. This restriction has had the unintended consequence of posing serious challenges to medical researchers who depend on patient data for their studies.
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The Future of the Life Sciences The field of life sciences is advancing with tremendous speed, enabling scientists to identify and manipulate features of living systems in ways never before possible. On a daily basis and in laboratories around the world, biomedical researchers use sophisticated technologies to manipulate microorganisms in an effort to understand how microbes cause disease and to develop better measures for fighting them.
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The "NIH Strategic Research Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Elimi nate Health Disparities" is intended to provide an overarching structure and co ordination plan for research into these discrepancies by various NIH institutes 62
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concluded that malaria remains a severe and ongoing threat to many military deployments. The DoD Malaria Vaccine Program represents a large proportion of the global malaria vaccine effort and has unique capabilities not readily available elsewhere, such as a well-defined sporozoite challenge model and a pilot production facility that ensures good manufacturing practices.
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Clinical trials in non immune adults visiting malaria-endemic sites were suggested as a possible ad ditional approach for moving candidates forward. The report recommended that the program adopt a generational approach to vaccine development because even a partially protective first-generation vac cine would be a useful adjunct to preventive drugs while research continues to develop a vaccine sufficiently effective to be used alone.
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The report examined the problem of occupational hearing loss, a serious concern for many workers even though the number of people affected or at risk is uncertain. The report found that over the past decade, the Hearing Loss Research Program has made meaningful contributions to improving worker health and safety.
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It must gain access to additional in sustain disabling injuries on the job, ternal and external expertise, especially in epi more than a dozen die from injuries demiology and noise control engineering, and suffered at work, and at least a initiate and sustain efforts to obtain surveillance hundred workers die from work-related data for occupational hearing loss and workplace illnesses. noise exposure.
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