In its first research misconduct finding of 2018, the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI) announced that Colleen Skau committed research misconduct when she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. In a 2/19/18 announcement posted on its website, ORI said Skau falsified, fabricated and otherwise skewed data in dozens […]
Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
On January 17, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and 15 other federal departments issued an interim final rule to delay the implementation of the revised Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (“Common Rule”) for six months, until July 19, 2018 to provide regulated entities additional time to make the necessary […]