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Institutitional Review Board (IRB) Important Websites
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP):
Federal Policy for the protection of Human Subjects ('Common Rule')
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
Office of Extramural Research (NIH) News Flashes
National Institutes of Health (NIH) "Bioethics Resources on the Web"
Created August 17, 2009, Updated June 15, 2023