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Inspection Tracking using Administrative features

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

How does your institute note deficiencies related to inspections? Inspections are an important part of regulating research, necessary for ensuring quality, safe, and acceptable conditions are maintained to aid, not…

Proposal to reduce IBC review of previously reviewed clinical trials

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

Read the Federal Register posting here. From the NIH: The NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities (NIH OBA) proposes to revise the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic…

May 8th, National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day!

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

Make sure you have a facility animal disaster plan! From FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino: http://www.fema.gov/medialibrary/media_records/2484 "We all know that pets are part of the family. As we prepare for…

New Zealand Clinical Trials Website Now Available

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

The New Zealand Ministry of Health has launched a new website “Clinical Trials“, to inform the public about ongoing and completed clinical trials. Users can search for keywords that are…

UK pharma scientist jailed over trial fraud

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

From PharmaTimes Online (link): A UK-based pharma scientist has been sentenced to three months in prison for altering pre-clinical trial data designed to support applications to perform human trials. Steven…

Update on the 2013 AVMA Guidelines for Euthanasia

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has released the “AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals: 2013 Edition” as an update to the 2007 Guidelines on Euthanasia. This is the…

Federal Register Notice on Implementation of the Updated AVMA Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

From OLAW: On March 22, 2013, the NIH published a Federal Register Notice on Implementation of the Updated American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Guidelines for the Euthanasia of Animals (FR…

GAO recommends joint efforts on Select Agent inspections

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

Entire Report GAO Summary page: What GAO Found About 15 percent of entities registered to work with select agents were subject to inspection overlap (multiple federal agencies inspecting within a…

Revenge of the Mice!

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Matthew Tanner |

This month’s InfoEdge article topic deals with a story widely reported in the national media. Within a few months, the US government, through the USDA, will drop an unknown number…

PRIM&R Webinar: Overcoming Obstacles to Research with Pregnant Women

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Matthew Tanner | 0 Comments

From PRIM&R: Overview Pregnant women have historically been excluded from participation as subjects in biomedical research, but there is increasing recognition in the research community of the importance and of…