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Federal Regulations & Guidelines


Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

  • - Office for Human Research Protections, DHHS, home page
  • - DHHS Regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects
  • - Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards; Final Rule
  • Expedited Guidelines - Categories of Research That May Be Reviewed by the IRB through an Expedited Review Procedure

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  • - FDA regulations for Protection of Human Subjects
  • - FDA regulations for Institutional Review Boards
  • - FDA regulations for Investigational New Drugs
  • - FDA regulations for Investigational Device Exemptions
  • - FDA regulations for Humanitarian Use Devices
  • - Guidance for clinical investigators involved in clinical trials of investigational drugs
  • - Guidance for IRBs and clinical investigators on interpreting 21 CFR 50 and 56

 Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

  • - Consolidated Guidance - guidance for investigators, sponsors, and IRBs
  • - FDA web site for investigators conducting clinical trials

Ethical Codes

  • - Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research
  • - Recommendations Guiding Medical Doctors in Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects
  • - Directives for Human Experimentation
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